Seder maʿaśeh Uḳva (Gaster Hebrew MS 2097)
Fragment from a codex: maʿaśeh
Information about this document
- Physical Location: The John Rylands Library
- Collection: Hebrew Manuscripts
- Classmark: Gaster Hebrew MS 2097
- Alternative Identifier(s): Gaster 2097; F 16119
- Title: Seder maʿaśeh Uḳva
- Alternative Title(s): סדר מעשה עוקבא
- Origin Place: Yemen or Persia
- Date of Creation: 18th-19th century?
- Language(s): Hebrew
- Former Owner(s): Gaster, Moses 1856-1939
- Note(s):
Title in manuscript: "סדר מעשה עוקבא"; running title "מעברא".
A story about a baʿal teshuvah (repentant sinner) called Uḳvaʾ ben Idaʾ who lived in Aram Tsova (Aleppo), based on two rabbinic aggadot: one on Nathan de-Tsutsitaʾ (Shabbat 56b) and one on Elazar ben Dordaya (Avodah Zarah 17a).
Reference to Aleppo: "במדינת ארם צובה"(e.g. folio 1a, lines 1-2, folio 2a, line 1).
Beginning "מעשה בעוקבא בירב אידא שהיה במדינת \ ארם צובה וכיון שקרבו ימי אביו \ למות צוה את אברהם בן עזרא ".
Mentions Abraham ibn Ezra: "והלכה והיא שואלת ממקום למקום עד \ שהגיעה למדינת ארם צובה למדרשו של ר' אבע"ז" (e.g. folios 1b-2a:).
- Extent: 4 ff. Leaf height: 105 mm, width: 75 mm.
- Collation:
Four folios, one loose and three still joined together by tape. Catchword on every b side.
- Material(s): Paper
- Format: Codex
- Condition:
Usage stains, liquid damage.
- Binding:
Unbound. In a phase box.
- Accompanying Material:
The fragments are stored together with the following items:
A modern green binding containing an empty envelope with the shelfmark "H 2097" and a smaller envelope with the manuscript fragments;
a notebook with tipped in photographs of the manuscript fragments, and an empty envelope addressed to M. Gaster. It seems that the notebook with the negative photographs was given a separate Gaster number: 2049. - Script:Yemenite (or Persian?) square script; in brown ink.
- Foliation:
Modern ink foliation in Arabic numerals at the top outer corner of side a of each folio covering the range folio 28-31 (the leaves used to be part of a larger codex).
- Layout:
Long line with a maximum of 23 written lines.
- Origin:
Produced in Yemen or Persia the 18th-19th century?
- Acquisition: Acquired by The John Rylands Library from the heirs of Moses Gaster in 1954.
- Date of Acquisition: 1954
- Data Source(s): Description by Zsófia Buda.
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- Physical Location: The John Rylands Library
- Collection: Hebrew Manuscripts
- Classmark: Gaster Hebrew MS 2097
- Alternative Identifier(s): Gaster 2097; F 16119
- Title: Seder maʿaśeh Uḳva
- Alternative Title(s): סדר מעשה עוקבא
- Origin Place: Yemen or Persia
- Date of Creation: 18th-19th century?
- Language(s): Hebrew
- Former Owner(s): Gaster, Moses 1856-1939
- Note(s):
Title in manuscript: "סדר מעשה עוקבא"; running title "מעברא".
A story about a baʿal teshuvah (repentant sinner) called Uḳvaʾ ben Idaʾ who lived in Aram Tsova (Aleppo), based on two rabbinic aggadot: one on Nathan de-Tsutsitaʾ (Shabbat 56b) and one on Elazar ben Dordaya (Avodah Zarah 17a).
Reference to Aleppo: "במדינת ארם צובה"(e.g. folio 1a, lines 1-2, folio 2a, line 1).
Beginning "מעשה בעוקבא בירב אידא שהיה במדינת \ ארם צובה וכיון שקרבו ימי אביו \ למות צוה את אברהם בן עזרא ".
Mentions Abraham ibn Ezra: "והלכה והיא שואלת ממקום למקום עד \ שהגיעה למדינת ארם צובה למדרשו של ר' אבע"ז" (e.g. folios 1b-2a:).
- Extent: 4 ff. Leaf height: 105 mm, width: 75 mm.
- Collation:
Four folios, one loose and three still joined together by tape. Catchword on every b side.
- Material(s): Paper
- Format: Codex
- Condition:
Usage stains, liquid damage.
- Binding:
Unbound. In a phase box.
- Accompanying Material:
The fragments are stored together with the following items:
A modern green binding containing an empty envelope with the shelfmark "H 2097" and a smaller envelope with the manuscript fragments;
a notebook with tipped in photographs of the manuscript fragments, and an empty envelope addressed to M. Gaster. It seems that the notebook with the negative photographs was given a separate Gaster number: 2049. - Script:Yemenite (or Persian?) square script; in brown ink.
- Foliation:
Modern ink foliation in Arabic numerals at the top outer corner of side a of each folio covering the range folio 28-31 (the leaves used to be part of a larger codex).
- Layout:
Long line with a maximum of 23 written lines.
- Origin:
Produced in Yemen or Persia the 18th-19th century?
- Acquisition: Acquired by The John Rylands Library from the heirs of Moses Gaster in 1954.
- Date of Acquisition: 1954
- Data Source(s): Description by Zsófia Buda.
