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Or 10604

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Or 10604
Title:
Berit ha-Leṿi by Solomon Alkabeẓ
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
77 folios (77+x)
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Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1600-1699
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Alkabeẓ, Solomon ben Moses, 1505-1576
Alkabeẓ, Solomon ben Moses, 1505-1576
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Or 10604

Berit ha-Leṿi by Solomon Alkabeẓ

Contents

Kabbalistic commentary on the Passover Haggadah.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-77r
Author: אלקבץ, שלמה בן משה Alkabeẓ, Solomon ben Moses, ha-Levi, approximately 1505-1576
Title: ברית הלוי
Title: Berit ha-Leṿi

In 19 chapters.

F. 77r, at the end in smaller characters: ואני שמעתק ... מערב הנהר הכתוב בפ' זו.

The beginning of the first chapter and parts of the second and third chapters are missing.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; watermark: crossbow in circle (e.g. ff. 8-9, 24-25).
Extent: 77 folios (77+x)
Dimensions (leaf): 200 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): 140 × 102 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

10 unfoliated blank leaves at the end; called flyleaves in the digital surrogate.

Collation

11 quires: ifour (ff. 1-4), ii-x8 (ff. 5-12, 13-20, 21-28, 29-36, 37-44, 45-52, 53-60, 61-68, 69-76), xi14-3 (ff. 77 + unfoliated blank leaves).

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

Usage stains, iron gall ink corrosion.

Collation is detached from spine, fragile leaves.

Layout

Columns:1

Uniform layout.

Section headings are in larger, square script.

Hand(s)

Italian Hebrew cursive and square script of the 17th century.

Binding

Brown leather binding, blind-tooled. Boxed.

M. Gaster's label on spine: '661 שלמה אלקבץ -ברית הלוי'.

History

Origin: 1600-1699 17th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 661; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 9 September 1929.

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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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10604 (digital images currently unavailable)

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