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Or 10703

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032-003707038
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Or 10703
Title:
Bet Zevul by Eliezer Crescas.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
311 folios (i+311+i)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1600-1699
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
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Names:
Crescas, Eliezer
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
קרשקש, אלעזר בן יהושע
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Or 10703

Bet Zevul by Eliezer Crescas.

Contents

Citation index to the Bible.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-311v
Author: קרשקש, אלעזר בן יהושע Crescas, Eliezer
Title: בית זבול
Title: Bet Zevul

Incomplete at the beginning, starts with the end of Parashat Bereshit. Lacuna between ff. 49 and 50 (from the end of Parashat Bo to the end of Parashat Yitro).

According to the biblical books.

F. 293r: note on the upper margin regarding the muddled order of the leaves: צמח: למזכרת: יש סדר מפתחות לתהלים בסוף בסוף ספר זה ובקצתם יש חילוף במורה מקום.

Filiation: Cf. London, BL Or 10566.
Colophon:

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 311 folios (i+311+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 200 × 145 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

No catchwords.

Condition

Worm damage, water damage, usage stains.

Iron gall ink corrosion.

Collation is falling apart.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruling in hard point is visible.

Running title.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive script of the 17th century; by various hands.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

Post-1600, dark green cloth binding. Boxed.

M. Gaster's title on spine: 'בית זבול 928'.

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1600-1699 17th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 928; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 12 April 1930.

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_10703 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Weinberg, Bella Hass, 'The earliest Hebrew citation indexes', in Historical Studies in Information Science, ed. Trudi Bellardo Hahn and Michael Buckland (Medford, N. J. ; London: Information Today, 1998), p. 57.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL