Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Gaster Hebrew MS 1433
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- Manchester Digital Collections
- Library
- The John Rylands Library
- Shelfmark
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- Gaster Hebrew MS 1433
- Biblissima authority file
- Language
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- Hebrew
- Title
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- Seder avodat kohen gadol be-yom ha-kippurim (סדר עבודת כהן גדול ביום הכפורים | Liturgy of the High Priest on the Day of Atonement)
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- Preferred form
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- Barukh (17..-18..?)
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- Scribe
- Original form
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- Barukh
- ברוך
- Biblissima authority file
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- Preferred form
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- Moses ben David di Crasto (17..-18..?)
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- Patron
- Original form
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- De Crasto, Mosheh ben David
- Moshe ben David de Crasto
- משה בן דוד די קראסטו
- Biblissima authority file
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- Preferred form
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- Mordechai Gomes (17..?-18..)
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- Former owner
- Original form
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- Gomes, Mordehai
- מרדכי גומיס
- M.Gomes
- Biblissima authority file
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- Preferred form
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- David Piza (1817-1890)
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- Other
- Original form
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- Piza, David, Rabbi of the Spanish and Portuguese congregation (Bevis Marks)
- Revd. David Piza
- Biblissima authority file
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- Preferred form
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- Moses Gaster (1856-1939)
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- Former owner
- Original form
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- Moses Gaster
- Gaster, Moses 1856-1939
- Biblissima portal
- Biblissima authority file
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- Description
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- Extent:
10 ff. (iii+10+iii) Leaf height: 161 mm, width: 110 mm. Written height: 127 mm, width: 95 mm.
Binding:
Red leather binding with gold tooled decoration on boards and marbled paste-downs.
Decoration:
Decorated title page: gate design in black ink.
Headings on each page and last word decorated by dots in diamond shape in ink.
Acquisition:
Acquired by The John Rylands Library from the heirs of Moses Gaster in 1954.
Layout:
Long line with 18 written lines
Collation:
Catchword at the bottom left corner of each page.
Script:
Sephardi square script.
Data Source(s):
Description based on Alexander Samely's unpublished draft catalogue, revised and expanded by Stefania Silvestri and Renate Smithuis.
Subject(s):
Judaism Liturgy Texts; Prayer Judaism; Piyutim
Abstract:
The manuscript contains the liturgy (Seder ha-Avodah) to be recited during the additional (musaf) service on the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur). According to the Sephardi rite. Included are some liturgical poems (piyyutim) such as one by Ibn Gabirol. The manuscript with adorned title page was produced in 1789 by scribe and illustrator Barukh for Moses ben David di Crasto. The manuscript later came in the possession of Mordekhai Gomes who gifted it to Revd. David Piza in 1846.
Foliation:
Modern pencil foliation in Arabic numerals at the top outer corner of side a of each folio.
Format:
Codex
Material:
Parchment
Provenance:
Paper label on spine with number 1433 handwritten in ink.
Folio ib: Number 1433 handwritten in blue crayon and handwritten note reading "Presented by M.Gomes to the Revd. David Piza as a token of Remembrance and Esteem. - 5606".
Folio iiib: Signature of Moses Gaster and the year 1789 in pencil.
Folio 1a: At the bottom left of the gate design of the title page signature in Hebrew of "מרדכי גומיס". His name, in Latin characters, is also added on folio iiib.
Note(s):
With Tiberian vocalisation.Liturgical poem 1 (2a). Incipit: אלהינו ואלהי אבותינו היה עם פינו ועם פיפיות שלוחי עמך בית ישראל . Reshut. 4821 א.
Liturgical poem 2 (2b-3a). Incipit: ארוממך חזקי וחלקי בבואי ברוב דפקי ודבקי. Alphabetical acrostic reshut by Solomon ibn Gabirol. 7543 א.
Liturgical poem 3 (3a-4a). Incipit: אתה כוננת עולם מראש. Alphabetical acrostic poem. 8816 א.
Excerpts:
Colophon: Title page on folio 1a in Hebrewreading: "זה ספר של הגביר הנעלה המשכיל ונבון / משה בן דוד די קראסטו / סדר / עבודת כהן גדול / ביום הכפורים / שאומרים חזני קהלות הספרדים / בחזרת תפילת מוסף / יום הכפורים / נכתב בשנת / כ׳י׳ ב׳י׳ום׳ ה׳ז׳ה׳ י׳כ׳פ׳ר׳ / ע׳ל׳יכם׳ לפ"ק". At the bottom in smaller characters: "מעשי ידי להתפאר הקטן ברוך סופר סת"ם".
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