Date: 1600-1799Language: Hebrew | Judaeo-ArabicMaterial: PaperOrigin: North AfricaRepository: University of Manchester LibraryClassmark: Gaster Hebrew MS 1497Former Owner: Gaster, MosesDescription: 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 piyuṭim. 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 piyuṭ on 22b. According to Moses Gaster this is an eighteenth-century Moroccan manuscript.IIIF Manifest:https://www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/iiif/MS-GASTER-HEBREW-01497
Date: 1800-1899Language: Hebrew | Judaeo-Arabic | Judaeo-SpanishMaterial: PaperOrigin: Morocco or Algeria?Repository: University of Manchester LibraryClassmark: Gaster Hebrew MS 1511SFormer Owner: Gaster, MosesDescription: A collection of medical recipes.IIIF Manifest:https://www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/iiif/MS-GASTER-HEBREW-01511-S
Date: 1600-1799Language: Hebrew | Judaeo-ArabicMaterial: PaperOrigin: North AfricaRepository: University of Manchester LibraryClassmark: Gaster Hebrew MS 1822Former Owner: Gaster, MosesDescription: Composite codex with liturgical poems in Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic, copied in North Arfica, perhaps Morocco(?).IIIF Manifest:https://www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/iiif/MS-GASTER-HEBREW-01822
Date: 1800-1899Language: Hebrew | Judaeo-ArabicMaterial: PaperOrigin: North AfricaRepository: University of Manchester LibraryClassmark: Gaster Hebrew MS 1825Former Owner: Gaster, MosesDescription: Composite codex containing a letter writing manual, letters, a rhymed dictionary, Sefer Raziʾel, sermons and a book of medical-magical recipes.IIIF Manifest:https://www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/iiif/MS-GASTER-HEBREW-01825
Date: late 1700s, early 1800sLanguage: HebrewMaterial: PaperOrigin: Meknes?, MoroccoRepository: University of Manchester LibraryClassmark: Gaster Hebrew MS 1838Former Owner: Gaster, MosesDescription: Collection of model letters, documents and legal enactments.IIIF Manifest:https://www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/iiif/MS-GASTER-HEBREW-01838
Date: 29 June 1576Language: Hebrew | Judaeo-ArabicMaterial: PaperOrigin: Fes, MoroccoRepository: University of Manchester LibraryClassmark: Hebrew MS 30Former Owner: Black, William Henry | Crawford, James Ludovic Lindsay, Earl of | Enriqueta RylandsDescription: Codex in Sephardi script containing a compilation of texts on logic and astronomy, written and partly authored by Samuel ben Saʿadiah ibn Danan in Fez in 1576.IIIF Manifest:https://www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/iiif/MS-HEBREW-00030
Date: ca. 1800Language: HebrewMaterial: ParchmentOrigin: Meknes?, MoroccoRepository: Braginsky CollectionClassmark: S91Description: Influenced by the Islamic culture of North Africa, this megillah (on three sheets with 19 columns of text) dispenses with figurative representations and uses the formal language of Islamic art with its manifoldly varied ornaments. The text is adorned by an arcade that extends over the entire scroll. The decoration most closely resembles that of some ketubot from the city of Meknes in MoroccoIIIF Manifest:https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/metadata/iiif/bc-s-0091/manifest.json
