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Miscellany, with texts of practical use ; manuscript.
קובץ, דברים לטילטול-מעשית.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts CAJS Rar Ms 736
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Hebrew
- Judeo-Arabic
- Subjects (All):
- Letters patent--Texts.
- Letters patent.
- Zodiac.
- Manuscripts, Hebrew--Morocco--Casablanca--20th century--Specimens.
- Manuscripts, Hebrew.
- Manuscripts, Judeo-Arabic--Morocco--Casablanca--20th century--Specimens.
- Manuscripts, Judeo-Arabic.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- Legal forms.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold by Refa'eli Auctions (Jerusalem), 2022.
- Physical Description:
- 26 leaves : paper ; 18 x 12 cm
- Production:
- [Casablanca], [1900?-1936?]
- [קאזאבלאנקא], [1900?-1936?]
- Language Note:
- Hebrew; sponsorship note in Judeo-Arabic (f. 1v).
- Biography/History:
- Son of Casablanca rabbi Yiḥya Adahan, and also rabbi in Casablanca; his completion note, and place of writing, on f. 26v.
- Summary:
- Miscellany written for Yaʻaḳov ben Mordekhai Gabbai containing ʻEṭ sofer, a work with document formularies for use in a Bet din (financial, social, and philanthropical documentation); novellae, possibly written by Gabbai; and Goralot (a method of predictive speculation using Zodiac and Hebrew names; attributed to Abraham ibn Ezra in this manuscript (f. 17r)). Written in a Moroccan cursive script, with captions written in a Sephardic square script; additional (later) writing in pencil on many leaves, as well as doodles and mathematical equations; penwork designs, in the style of a title page (f. 1r-2r), with rosette stencils in ink (f. 1v-2r). Bound in a contemporary leather binding.
- Contents:
- 1. f.2r-8r: ʻEṭ sofer
- 2. f. 12r-16r: [Novellae]
- 3. f. 17r-f. 26r: Goralot.
- 1. f.2r-8r: עט סופר
- f.12r-16r: [חדושים]
- 3. f. 17r-f. 26r: גורלות.
- Notes:
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund.
- Cited as:
- Miscellany, with texts of practical use (UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 736). Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
- OCLC:
- 1456025224
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