Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Gaster Hebrew MS 1497
- Source
- Manchester Digital Collections
- Library
- The John Rylands Library
- Shelfmark
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- Gaster Hebrew MS 1497
- Biblissima authority file
- Language
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- Hebrew
- Judeo-Arabic
- Title
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- Piyyutim le-Havdalah (פיוטים להבדלה | Liturgical poems for the end of Shabbat)
- Piyyutim (פיוטים | Liturgical poems)
- Agent
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- Preferred form
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- Moses Gaster (1856-1939)
- Role
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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:
24 ff. (i+24+i) Leaf height: 215-223 mm, width: 137-149 mm.
Binding:
Modern green cloth binding.
Acquisition:
Acquired by The John Rylands Library from the heirs of Moses Gaster in 1954.
Layout:
Long line of between 14 and 20 written lines, dry-stylus ruling.
Collation:
Catchwords at the bottom left corner of nearly every page.
Script:
Sephardi square script for the main text.Sephardi semi-cursive script for the catchwords and the names of the authors.
Data Source(s):
Description based on Alexander Samely's unpublished draft catalogue, revised and expanded by Stefania Silvestri and Renate Smithuis.
Subject(s):
Prayer Judaism; Piyutim; Judaism Liturgy Texts
Abstract:
Collection of liturgical poems in Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic. Eleven Hebrew liturgical poems for the Havdalah, the ceremony for the end of Shabbat, on folios 1a-9b, are followed by seventeen piyyutim. Incomplete at the end and probably also at the beginning. The letters belonging to the poems' acrostics are usually marked with three dots. A different hand added another piyyut on 22b. According to Moses Gaster this is an eighteenth-century Moroccan manuscript.
Foliation:
Lead pencil foliation in Arabic numerals at the top outer corner of side a of each folio. Another foliation in Arabic numerals is crossed out. Folios between respectively folios 9 and 10 and folios 12 and 13 are numbered "9A" and "12A".
Format:
Codex
Material:
Paper with watermarks: folios 3, 11 BRIO, folio 4tail of a dragon, folio 9A, folio 12 L, folio 13crown, folios 15, 16 circle.
Provenance:
Two paper labels on spine, bottom one with number 1497.
Front paste-down: Handwritten in blue crayon number 1497.
Front fly-leaf and folio 2a: Handwritten in lead pencil number 1497.
Folio 1a: signature of Moses Gaster.
Condition:
Water stains. Top outer corner of folios 1-3 ripped, with some text loss on folio 1. Repair paper on bifolia 9-9A.
Additions:
On folio 22b a different hand added another poem which does not continue the brief beginning of the preceding piyyut.
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- Rights
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