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Or 10458

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Or 10458
Title:
Seder hazkarat neshamot
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
41 folios (ii+41+i)
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Hebrew
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Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1700-1799
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Or 10458

Seder hazkarat neshamot

Contents

A collection of prayers.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-41r
Title: סדר הזכרת נשמות
Title: Seder hazkarat neshamot
Explicit: Il Fine f. 41r

In the manuscript: Seder Hazkarat Neshamot (memorial prayer for the souls of relatives), which is recited according to the Ashkenazic rite, in the Sabbath which precedes Rosh-Hodesh Nisan and in the Sabbath which precedes the Ninth of Av.

Title page on f. 1r: סדר האזכרת נשמות שאומרים אשכנזים בשבת שלפני ר"ח ניסן ובשבת שלפני ט"ב ובסרח העודף על הראשנ’ הסליחות שאומרי’ בחודש אלול וב"י ימי תשובה אחר מנחה ואמ’ והריבון שאומרים לקבל ולאחר התענית, עם תפלה לאומר בברכת שמע בקולינו והתרת נדרים ותפלת חולים כאשר עיניך תחזינה מישרים.

Ff. 36r-39v: prayer for a woman in confinement (יושבת על המשבר); ff. 40r-41r: the variola prayer (תפילת וארולי) against the smallpox epidemic.

A few marginal notes in Italian (ff. 6r, 6v, 7v).

F. 5v: erased text.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines.
Extent: 41 folios (ii+41+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 185 × 133 mm.
Dimensions (written): 145 × 95 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic and Hebrew numerals in pen, probably by the scribe.

Collation

Indeterminable due to later repairs.

Catchword on every page.

Condition

Iron gall ink corrosion, usage stains, dirt, very fragile leaves.

Lower part of f. 32 is repaired.

Collation is falling apart.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 12

Written lines: 12

Uniform layout.

Running title.

Main text in square script; instructions, catchwords, running titles in semi-cursive script.

Ruling is visible.

Hand(s)

Italian Hebrew square and semi-cursive script of the 18th century; in brown ink.

Decoration

Additions:

Ff. 4v-5r: additions in black ink, mentioning among others ר' משה לפשיץ, ר' שלמה אריה, ר' שלמה יהודה הלוי, ר' שלמה ידידיה סיניגאליה, etc.

Blessing on f. 1v added by a different Italian hand in black ink: לנער - מי שברך אבותינו אברהם יצחק ויעקב הוא יברך את הנער (פלוני בן פלוני) ...

Scribbles and calculations on front flyleaf (ii)r.

Binding

Post-1600. Half-bound with leather spine and marble paper covers; with a blue ribbon bookmark. Boxed.

M. Gaster's label on spine: 'הזרכת נשמות - סליחות וכ' 458'.

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1700-1799 18th century.

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 458; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 24 July 1928.

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

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