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Or 10707

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Or 10707
Title:
Shomer ʾemunim by Joseph Ergas
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
49 folios (no flyleaves)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10707 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1700-1799
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Ergas, Joseph ben Emanuel, 1685-1730
Ergas, Joseph ben Emanuel, 1685-1730
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Or 10707

Shomer ʾemunim by Joseph Ergas

Contents

Kabbalistic treatise in the form of a dialogue between a philosopher and a cabalist.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-49v
Author: אירגאס, יוסף בן עמנואל Ergas, Joseph ben Emanuel, 1685-1730
Title: שומר אמונים
Title: Shomer ʾemunim
Incipit: הסכמה - אשרי אדם מצא חכמה בשיעור קומה ואדם יפיק תבונה...

Cf. printed edition of Amsterdam 1736.

Colophon:
f. 1r
Title: הסכמה
Title: Haskhamah

Imprimatur or approval by Jacob ha-Kohen.

ff. 1v-20v
Title: ויכוח ראשון
Title: Ṿikuaḥ rishon

Ff. 1v-2r: Introduction to the first disputation.

ff. 21r-49v
Title: ויכוח שני
Title: Ṿikuaḥ sheni

Ff. 21r-25v: Introduction to the second disputation.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 49 folios (no flyleaves)
Dimensions (leaf): 193 × 154 mm.
Dimensions (written): 155 × 125 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink by the scribe.

Collation

Condition

Usage stains, slight iron gall ink corrosion, fragile leaves.

Layout

Columns:1

Uniform layout.

Section headings are in larger, square characters.

Running title.

Ruling in hard point is visible.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi cursive and square script of the 18th century.

Binding

Notebook with blue paper covers. In flap case.

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1700-1799 18th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Notes in German in the inner covers: 'Aufgaben und Ihre Dienstlehre' (back inner cover), 'v. Grafenstein' (front inner cover).

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 763; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 10 December 1929.

Record Sources

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

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10707 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing

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