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Or 10530

Record Id:
032-003458843
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-003458843
MDARK:
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Format:
TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
Or 10530
Title:
Jewish sermons
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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032-003458843
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
66 folios (no flyleaves)
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1700-1799
Era:
CE
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User Conditions:
The item is too fragile to be digitised.
Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 10530

Jewish sermons

Contents

A collection of sermons on the weekly readings, etc.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-66v
Title: דרשות וחדושים על פרשיות השבוע, על התלמוד ועוד
Title: Derashot ṿe-ḥidushim ʿal parshiyot ha-shavuaʿ, ʿal ha-Talmud ṿe-ʿod

Among the included: מהרב ... זקני מוהר"ר יהוסף קונקי זצוק"ל (f. 4r etc.); שמעתי מפי קדוש מורינו בעל יד אהרן (f. 20r), and a homiletic commentary from the year 5482 AM (1721/2 CE): משם הר"ר יצחק ן’ שושן נ"י (f. 39r).

Ff. 51r-52r: amulets and charms, most of them are from printed books.

F. 54v: recycled paper leaf with calligraphy signatures.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper leaves of various types and sizes.
Extent: 66 folios (no flyleaves)
Dimensions (leaf): 213 × 162 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

The back pastedown is partially detached from the board and in the digital surrogate it is called back flyleaf.

Blank pages, unfoliated blank leaves in the collation.

Collation

Condition

Very fragile leaves; collation is falling apart, loose,sometimes disintegrating leaves.

Usage stains, water damage, mould.

Some leaves seem to be torn out (e.g. before f. 27).

Layout

Columns:1

Not uniform layout.

Hand(s)

Oriental Hebrew curisve and square scripts of the 18th century; by several hands.

Binding

Brown leather binding; with pasteboard covers. Boxed.

History

Origin: 1700-1799 18th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Ownership inscription on f. 10r: רפאל שבתי הכהן.

Black stamp on f. 1v: יצחק כב"ר שמואל נחמה(?).

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 770; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 14 December 1929.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel.

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