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Title

Miscellany, with texts of practical use ;
קובץ, דברים לטילטול-מעשית

Other related names

• Adahan, Yiḥya, 1865 or 1866-1957, associated name
  אדהן, יחיא
• Adhan, Daṿid ben Yiḥye, scribe
  אדהאן, דוד בן יחייא.
• Gabbai, Yaʻaḳov ben Mordekhai, sponsor
  גבאי, יעקב בן מרדכי.

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 736
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9978087222403681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1456025224
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1229047

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Hebrew; sponsorship note in Judeo-Arabic (f. 1v)

Origin

Date

1900?-1936?

Place

Casablanca

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.

Notes

• 1. f.2r-8r: ʻEṭ sofer -- 2. f. 12r-16r: [Novellae] -- 3. f. 17r-f. 26r: Goralot.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

26 leaves : 18 x 12 cm

Support

Paper

Provenance

• Sold by Refa'eli Auctions (Jerusalem), 2022.
   

Subjects topical

• Letters patent--Texts
• Zodiac
• Manuscripts, Hebrew--Morocco--Casablanca--20th century--Specimens
• Manuscripts, Judeo-Arabic--Morocco--Casablanca--20th century--Specimens

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• Legal forms

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 2r — ʻEṭ sofer
• fol. 2r — עט סופר
• fol. 12r — [Novellae]
• fol. 12r — [חדושים]
• fol. 17r — Goralot.
• fol. 17r — גורלות.