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Or 9879

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Or 9879
Title:
Biblical fragments
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
40 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9879 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
0900
End Date:
0999
Date Range:
0900-0999
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
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Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 9879

Biblical fragments

Contents

Biblical fragments ('First Gaster Bible') with masorah magna and parva .

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-37v
Title: Tana"kh
Title: תנ"ך

Numerous space fillers with gold, red and blue. f. 14v, 17r, 23v

The volume contains 2Chronicles 36:23, Psalms 1:1-4:4, 11:6-119:71, 144:13-147:5, Proverbs 31:13-31:31, Rut 1:1-1:13, 3:14-4:18, Ecclesiastes 2:11-10:5, Esther 4:11-5:11, 9:10-10:3, Daniel 1:1-1:13.

See [Gaster_1901] 350, [BL_2007] 60, [Tahan_2007] 18-19.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 10th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 40 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 330 × 260 mm.
Dimensions (written): 220 × 180 mm.
Foliation:

40 folios (+1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).

Collation

Fragments of the parchment folios stamped on paper leaves.

Condition

Extremely damaged by damp, all repaired, inlaid and guarded before rebinding.

A few old repairs slightly obscure text.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 18

Written lines: 18

Uniform layout.

Complete ruling by hard-point visible.

Traces of pricking on the outer margins only.

Masorah magna and parva.

Hand(s)

Oriental square script, punctuated, of the 10th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Biblical Fragments. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Or. 9879.'

History

Origin: 10th century ; Egypt

Provenance and Acquisition

1924-04-12

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 151; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed, [42v].

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=Or_9879 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    [Gaster_1901] Moses GASTER. 'Hebrew Illuminated Bibles of the IXth and Xth Centuries (Codices Or. Gaster, No. 150 and 151); and a Samaritan Scroll of the Law of the XIth Century (Codex Or. Gaster, No. 350). Together with Eight Plates of Facsimiles of These Manuscripts and of Fragments from the Geniza in Egypt, Etc. (Reprinted from the “Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archæology,” June, 1900.).'London: Harrison & Sons, 1901.
    [BL_2007] Sacred (Exhibition) (2007 : British Library). 'Sacred : Books of the Three Faiths : Judaism, Christianity, Islam / Edited by John Reeve ; Essays by Karen Armstrong, Everett Fox, F.E. Peters ; Catalogue Contributions by Colin F. Baker ... [et Al.].'London: British Library, 2007.
    [Tahan_2007] Ilana Tahan. 'Hebrew Manuscripts : The Power of Script and Image / Ilana Tahan.'London: British Library, 2007.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL