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Or 9882

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Or 9882
Title:
Biblical fragments
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
8 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9882 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1000
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1000-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
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 9882

Biblical fragments

Contents

Biblical fragments.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-8v
Title: Tana"kh
Title: תנ"ך
ff. 1r-4v
Title: Nevi᾿im
Title: נביאים

Judges 18:7-18:25, 1Kings 12:1-12:16, 17:17-18:13, 2Kings 17:26-18:3.

ff. 5r-5v
Title: Hafṭarot (Yitro-Terumah)
Title: הפטרות (יתרו-תרומה)

According to the Romanian rite.

ff. 6r-6v
Title: Nevi᾿im
Title: נביאים

Jeremiah 22:22-24:6.

ff. 7r-7v
Title: Hafṭarot (Ḥaye Sarah-Ṿa-yetse)
Title: הפטרות (חיי שרה-ויצא)
ff. 8r-8v
Title: Ketuvim
Title: כתובים

2 Chronicles 14:10-17:11 only.

Physical Description

Parts of parchment codices of the 11th-12th, 12th-13th, 14th, and 14th-15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 8 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 220/240 × 165/230 mm.
Dimensions (written): 220/240 × 210/160 mm.
Foliation:

8 folios (+ 1 unfoliated modern paper flyleaf at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Leaves restored on modern paper.

Condition

Damaged by damp and mould.

Some accretions.

Slight usage stains.

All repaired and inlaid before rebinding.

Layout

Columns:3

Ruled lines: 18 31

Written lines: 18 31

Non-uniform layout.

Complete ruling by hard-point visible.

Traces of pricking on the outer margins only.

Masorah magna and parva variously executed.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square, Sefardi square and Byzantine square script. Punctuated, accentuated, with masorah magna and parva.

ff. 1r-4v
: Ashkenazi square script of the 14th century,
ff. 5r-5v
: Byzantine square script of 11th to 12th century,
ff. 6r-6v
: Byzantine square script of the 12th to 13th century,
ff. 7r-7v
: Ashkenazi square script of the 14th to 15th century,
ff. 8r-8v
: Byzantine square script of the 12th to 13th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Biblical Fragments. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Or. 9882.'

History

Origin: 11th-15th century ; Germany and former Byzantine Empire

Provenance and Acquisition

1924-04-12

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 152; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed, [9v].

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_9882 (digital images currently unavailable)

Funding of Cataloguing

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