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Or 10391
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- Or 10391
- Title:
- Miscellany
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- Oriental Manuscripts
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- Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 113 folios (no flyleaves)
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- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10391 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Judeo-Arabic - Scripts:
- Hebrew
- Start Date:
- 1751
- End Date:
- 1825
- Date Range:
- 1751-1825
- Era:
- CE
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Or 10391
Miscellany
Contents
Collection of readings for Passover in Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic, liturgical poems, and a midrash on the Decalogue.
Language(s): Hebrew, Jewish Babalonia Aramaic, Judeo-Arabic
ff. 1r-62vTitle: צ’היר של פסחTitle: Ts’ahir shel PesaḥIncipit: ידידם יוצאיםContains liturgical poems, readings from the Pentateuch and Hafṭarot for Pesaḥ in Aramaic and Judeo-Arabic translation.
F. 17r: אתחיל לכתוב הפטרה של פסח של יום ראשון
Incomplete at the beginning.
Colophon:ff. 1r-22vTitle: צ’היר של פסח - יום ראשוןff. 23r-46rTitle: צ’היר של פסח - יום שניff. 46v-51rTitle: הפטרה לשבת וחול המועד של פסחff. 51v-58vTitle: צ’היר של פסח - יום שביעיff. 58v-61vTitle: הפטרה ליום שביעי של פסחIncomplete at the end.
ff. 62r-62vTitle: פיוטיםPiyuṭ on f. 62v is unfinished.
ff. 63r-75vTitle: שירים והודאות על סדר הפרשיותTitle: Shirim ṿe-hodaʾot ʿal seder kol ha-parashiyotOn parashiyot Bereshit-Tsaṿ.
The poems have been printed in Zemirot Yiśraʾel.
Ff. 73r-75v: additional poems and list of parashiyot.
Colophon:ff. 76r-91vTitle: תפסיר עשרת הדברותTitle: Tafsir ʿaśeret ha-dibrotF. 76r: אל עשרת הדברות לרבינו סעדיה ז"ל.
Colophon:ff. 92r-108vTitle: פיוטיםTitle: PiyuṭimF. 92 is damaged, left half of it has been cut off.
Initial-word panel on f. 92r: אתחיל לכתוב פיוטים... ; there is a signature by Mordekhai Azulai in the same initial-word panel. He may have copied the text for himself.
In Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic.
Colophon:Physical Description
Paper codex of the the 18th-19th century.Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport: Paper without laid lines and chain lines.Extent: 113 folios (no flyleaves)Dimensions (leaf): 171 × 110 mm.Foliation:Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.
Parallel foliation in ink shows that at least 2 leaves are missing from the beginning.
Collation
18 quires: i6-2 (ff. 1-4), ii-v8 (ff. 5-12, 13-20, 21-28, 29-36), vi6 (ff. 37-42), vii-viii8 (ff. 43-50, 51-58), ixfour (ff. 59-62), x8 (ff. 63-70), xi8-3 (ff. 71-75), xiisix (ff. 76-81), xiii-xiv6 (ff. 82-87, 88-93), xv8 (ff. 94-101), xvi8-1 (ff. 102-108), xvii2 (ff. 109-110), xviiithree.
Catchword on almost every page.
Condition
Usage stains, water damage, rodent damage, smudged ink.
Collation is falling apart.
Layout
Columns:1
Ruling in hard point is visible.
Hand(s)
Oriental (North African) Hebrew square and semi-cursive script of the 18th-19th century; copied by several hands.
Decoration
Decorated initial-word panels on ff. 1r, 11v, 17r, 23r, 24r, 40r, 46v, 51v, 58v, 76r, 92r, 105r.
Additions:Ff. 73v, 74v-75v: cancelled index?
Ff. 109r-113v: calculations, notes.
Dated note on front flyleaf (fragmentary): 5604 AM = 1843/4 CE.
Binding
Brown leather binding, blind-tooled. Boxed.
Accompanying Material
History
Origin: 1751-1825 2nd half of the 18th century - early 19th century North Africa (Morocco?)Provenance and Acquisition
Ownership inscriptions: שלי אני הצעיר ... ... מורדכי אזולאי בר חיים אזולאי יוספ אזולאי יצ"ו (f. 92r, within the initial-word panel); זה הפנקס של ... יוסף אלבאז וקניתי מאיתו אני מרדכי בן חיים אזולאי (f. 100r). The latter says that this notebook used to belong to Yosef Albaz who sold it to Mordekhai Azulai ben Ḥayim Azulai.
Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 14; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 6 July 1927.
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and the Catalogue of Hebrew Manuscripts in the Gaster Collection, the British Library, London; preface by Brad Sabin Hill; reproduced from the MS and typescript blue-slips prepared by Jacob Leeven, Joseph Rosenwasser and David Goldstein (London: Hebrew Section. Oriental and India Office Collection, 1996) (unpublished copy is available in the AAS reading room).Availability
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10391 (digital images currently unavailable)
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