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Add MS 16915
Title:
Biblical fragments accompanied with Aramaic targum
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
12 folios
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Languages:
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Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1300-1499
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CE
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Add MS 16915

Biblical fragments accompanied with Aramaic targum

Contents

Biblical fragments accompanied with Aramaic targum.

Language(s): Hebrew, Aramaic

ff. 1r-73v
Title: Fragmenta Codicum Hebraicorum
Title: Fragmenta Codicum Hebraicorum collecta et cum textu in editione E. van der Hooght et paraphrasi Chaldaica in Bibliis polyglottis Londinens. collata ab M. A. Grimm.
Language(s): Hebrew, Aramaic

Collection of leaves of various sizes, with five fragments of biblical text with targum.

Physical Description

Vellum and paper, 12 leaves of various sizes.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Extent: 12 folios

Condition

Folios more or less mutilated, cut from different codices.

Layout

Columns:1 3

Written text variously arranged, from 1 to 3 columns.

Binding

BM/BL in-house binding.

Accompanying Material

4 additional paper leaves (3, 5, 8, 10), the contents of Hebrew fragments are stated, and the result of the collation of the text with the printed editions is given.

History

Origin: 14th-15th century ; Germany?

Provenance and Acquisition

I ()

Contents

ff. 2r-2v
Title: Numbers 17:4-20
Language(s): Hebrew, Aramaic

Punctuated and accentuated Hebrew text, with the punctuated and accentuated Targum to the verses 4-19. The text is accompanied with masorah parva.

Physical Description

A single leaf, with two columns on a page.
Form: leaf
Material: parchment
Extent: 1 folio
Dimensions (leaf): 266 × 190 mm.

Condition

The recto of the leaf is much soiled, the writing is partly obliterated.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 30

Written lines: 30

A single leaf, two columns on a page, 30 lines a column.

Hand(s)

Square Italian handwriting of about 15th century.

II ()

Contents

ff. 4r-4v
Title: Numbers 10:18-11:5

Punctuated and accentuated Hebrew text with punctuated and accentuated Targum of the chapter 10:17-11:4.

Language(s): Hebrew, Aramaic

Physical Description

A single leaf, vellum, with three coulmns per page.
Form: leaf
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 1 folio
Dimensions (leaf): 381 × 280 mm.

Condition

The upper half of the third column is mutilated.

Layout

Columns:3

Ruled lines: 31

Written lines: 30

Three columns per page, with 30 lines of text in each column.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square character, of about 14th century.

III ()

Contents

ff. 6r-6v
Title: Hafṭarot

The Hafṭarot of the first and second days, and the Sabbath of the semi-festival days of Passover. Punctuated and accentuated Hebrew text.

First day: Joshua 5:8-6:1; second day: 2Kings 23:1-9, 21-25; Sabbath (imperfect at the end): Ezekiel 37:1-6.

Physical Description

Form: leaf
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 1 folio
Dimensions (leaf): 348 × 235 mm.

Layout

Columns:3

Ruled lines: 31

Written lines: 30

A single leaf, three columns a page, 30 lines in each column.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square character, of about 14th century.

IV ()

Contents

ff. 7-9
Title: Leviticus 23:3-8, 12-14, 15-18, 21-24.

Punctuated and accentuated Hebrew text, with masorah magna and parva.

Language(s): Hebrew

Physical Description

Two long vellum strips, the first and the third columns of a leaf of three columns.
Form: leaf
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 2 folios

Condition

Top of the folio 7 is cut off as well as the lower margin of folio 9.

Layout

Columns:3

Ruled lines: 22

Written lines: 22

Two long vellum strips, the first and the third columns of a leaf of three columns.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi sqaure character, of about 14th century.

V ()

Contents

ff. 11-12
Title: Sidur

Two detached leaves of a prayer book.

Folio 12 contains Deuteronomy 16:6-17, Numbers 28:19-25.

Language(s): Hebrew

Physical Description

Two vellum leaves.
Form: leaf
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 2 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 228 × 184 mm.

Condition

Ink partly faded.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 18

Written lines: 18

Two vellum leaves, with 18 written lines in a page.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi sqaure and semi-cursive character, of probably 14th century.

Additional Information

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_16915 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), no. 63.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL