Bodleian Library, MS. Heb. b. 9.30 (Haqdashah)

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MS. Heb. b. 9.30

Haqdashah

Bodleian Library (Oxford, United Kingdom)

Document

Haqdashah

Document Definition

Incodicated

Document in a book

Written in the blank space to the left of the end of the book of Malachi. Only one folio extant.

Content Description

Bequest statements

Hebrew


  1. אילו שמונה ספרי הנביאים

  2. הקדישה אותם רחל בת שלמה

  3. המתחכים חדיד בר איוב בר

  4. שלמה בר שתון בר מר בכשיתא

  5. לכניסת {ה}ירושלמים בפסטאט

  6. מצרים שיקראו בהם בבית

  7. הכנסת לא ימכר ולא יגאל

  8. וכל המוכרו וממשכנו וגונבו

  9. ארור הוא לאלהי ישראל

  10. ויהוי בשמתא דייי ובקללת

  11. יהושע בר נון ובקללת יהודה

  12. בר יחזקאל והמקדישו והשומרו

  13. והקורא בו יתברך בברכת

  14. אבינו אברהם וכל ישראל

  15. בכלל הברכה אמן


  1. These eight books of the Prophets1

  2. were bequeathed by Rachel daughter of Solomon,

  3. known as Ḥadid b. Job b.

  4. Solomon b. Shatun b. Mar Bakhshita,

  5. to the Jerusalemite synagogue in Fustat,

  6. Egypt, that they should read it in the

  7. Synagogue. It should not be sold or redeemed,

  8. and anyone who sells it or pawns it or steals it,

  9. may he be accursed to the God of Israel

  10. and may he be excommunicated by the Lord and under the curse of

  11. Joshua b. Nun4 and the curse of Judah

  12. b. Ezekiel5. But may the one who bequeathes it and keeps it

  13. and reads it be blessed with the blessing of

  14. our father Abraham, and may all Israel be

  15. under the influence of the blessing, Amen.

 

Notes


  1. The four books of former prophets and the four books of latter prophets, i.e. all the נביאים.

  2. i.e. Biblical Joshua.

  3. i.e. Rav Judah, the Babylonian amora.

 

The terminus post quem of the dedication is the founding of the Jerusalemite Synagogue, but palaeographically this looks to date from the earliest period when this community is attested.

Egypt

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