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Or 9968

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Torat ha-minḥah by Yakov Sikily
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407 folios (i+47+i)
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1545
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Sikily, Yakov, fl 04th century,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000066928929,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/46623509
Sikily, Yakov, fl 04th century,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000066928929,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/46623509
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Or 9968

Torat ha-minḥah by Yakov Sikily

Contents

A collection of homilies on the parashiyot of the Pentateuch; followed by rabbinic tales.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-401r
Author: יעקב בן חננאל, הסיצילי Sikily, Yakov, active 14th century
Title: תורת המנחה
Title: Torat ha-minḥah

Begins with a fragment which contains various matters according to the Sod (the esoteric meaning of the Torah).

With marginal notes.

Colophon: נשלם ברחמי שמיא זה הפירוש של החכם רבי יעקב סקלי ז"ל ... דהוא עשרין ותשעה יומין לירח אייר דשנת א’תתנ"ו לשטרות במדינת יזד על יד ... הצעיר ... י’ועץ ש’לום ו’דורש ע’זרת האל [=ישועה] בן ר’ יוסף זלה"ה בן ... ישועה תנצ"ב בן ... יהוסף f. 401r
ff. 1r-103v
Title: Genesis
ff. 104r-198v
Title: Exodus
ff. 199r-256r
Title: Leviticus
ff. 256r-303v
Title: Numbers
ff. 304r-401r
Title: Deuteronomy
ff. 401v-407v
Title: מעשיות
Title: Maʿaśiyot

Rabbinic aggadot (legends), some are according to the kabbalah. An extract from Maimonides' Perush ha-Mishnah (Peʾah 1:1).

References

Gaster, Moses, The Exempla of the Rabbis: being a collection of exempla, apologues and tales culled from Hebrew manuscripts and rare Hebrew books. (London; Leipzig printed: Asia Publishing Co, 1924), pp. 191-192.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 407 folios (i+47+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 243 × 182 mm.
Dimensions (written): 175 × 120 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink.

Blank unfoliated leaf after f. 133.

Collation

Indeterminable due to tight binding. Based on the Eastern-Arabic numerals, it may be quires of mostly 8 leaves (see numerals e.g. ff. 24r, 32r, 40r, 48r, etc.).

Catchword on most versos.

Condition

Usage stains, water damage.

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 24

Section headings are in larger characters.

Small sections of the text are written diagonally to the rest of the text block (e.g. ff. 143v-144r,196v-197r, 297r).

Hand(s)

Persian Hebrew square script of the 16th century. Copied by Jeshua ben Joseph.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house binding.

Title on spine: 'Jacob Śeḳīlī. Torath Hamminḥah, &c. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 9968.'

History

Origin: 1545 Iran (Yazd)

Provenance and Acquisition

Ownership inscriptions: מרדכי בכה"ר יהודא (f. 1r); יצחק בן נ"ע בנמימין[!] יעקב שנת ה’תמ"ד (f. 1v); יצחק בר’ ... בנימין המ’ יעקב באשי (f. 2r)

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 84; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 16 August 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).

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