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Or 10767

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Or 10767
Title:
Magical miscellany
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
49 folios (i+49+i)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10767 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Arabic
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Arabic
Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1700-1799
Era:
CE
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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
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 10767

Magical miscellany

Contents

A collection of magical texts.

Language(s): Hebrew, Arabic, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-1v
Title: צורת יב מזלות
Title: Tsurat 12 mazalot

Colophon:
ff. 2r-2v
Title: Astrological treatise
Incipit: אלו הם תמונות שש כוכבים המשרתים והצורתם בהתחברם כל א' מהם עם הירח במזלות

Colophon:
ff. 3r-4r
Title: Treatise in 5 chapters
Incipit: פרק א

Chapter 1 begins: בספר הראשון נאמר מהימים והשעות והנקודות...

Colophon:
ff. 5r-16v
Title: ספר מפתח שלמה
Title: Sefer Mafteaḥ Shelomoh
Incipit: נסיון לאהבה

Cf. Or 14759, f.37r onwards.

See also Or 6360 and MS Gollancz (https://archive.org/details/sefermafteashelo00golluoft/page/n15/mode/2up).

Incomplete.

Numerous diagrams in ink.

Colophon:
ff. 18r-48v
Title: Fragments of a magical work
Incipit: בא בשלום

In Hebrew and in Judeo-Arabic; containing Eastern-Arabic numerals, characters from cryptic alphabets.

Written by various hands.

F. 44r: אלו הם שבעה מספרים.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Composite paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Various sizes of paper leaves; given dimensions are those of the flyleaves.
Extent: 49 folios (i+49+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 297 × 205 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Ff. 4v, 38r, 40v, 41v, 42v, and f. 45v are blank.

Unfoliated blank leaf after f. 44 and f. 45.

Collation

Condition

Very fragile leaves.

Collation is falling apart, some leaves have come loose.

Usage stains, earlier repairs.

Hand(s)

Various cursive, semi-cursive and square Hebrew scripts of the 18th century.

Binding

Post-1600, black cloth binding. In phase box.

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1700-1799 18th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 790; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 26 March 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

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10767 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    https://www.waseda.jp/inst/ias/assets/uploads/2016/05/Q.-Jewish-Literature-2.pdf

Funding of Cataloguing

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