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Or 9885

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032-003314122
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Or 9885
Title:
Pentateuch
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
133 folios (i+133+i)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9885 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Yosef ben Benayah
חמדי, יחיא בן יוסף
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Or 9885

Pentateuch

Contents

The Pentateuch, with vowel-points and accents, accompanied by masorah magna and parva, in two volumes.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1v-132
Title: תורה
Title: Torah

With vowel points, accents, Masorah Parva and Magna.

With marginal notes.

Volume 1 (Or 9885) contains Genesis (ff. 1v-72v), Exodus (ff. 72v-132v), and Leviticus 1:5 (ff. 132v). Volume 2 (Or 9886) containing Leviticus 4:12 (ff. 1r-44r), Numbers (ff. 44r-101v), and Deuteronomy (ff. 102r-132v).

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Oriental paper.
Extent: 133 folios (i+133+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 268 × 205 mm.
Dimensions (written): 215 × 130 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals.

Collation

Leaves on guards.

Condition

Paper fixed in numerous places with silk gauze.

Several leaves have been patched.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 20

Written lines: 20

Main text in one column, surrounded with the masorah in the margin.

Uniform layout.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square script of the 15th century, punctuated. Probably written by the same scribe as Oxford, Bodleian, MS. Oppenheim Add. 4° 97a (http://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/5a8ef1e0-ed08-4bbf-a4d1-1f1de5fa2f8c). The latter was written byYosef ben Benayahin 1478 (colophon on f. 315v).

Decoration

Masorah in a micrographical form.

Additions:

Missing, damaged parts are supplied by a later hand. His colophon is in volume 2, f. 151v.

Binding

Leather binding, blind-tooled, remains of leather straps, spine is later, added in-house.

Spine: 'Pentateuch. Hebrew. I. Brit. Mus. Oriental 9885.'

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

חמדי, יחיא בן יוסף: inscribed with his name, f. 133r.

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 324: inscribed with his name (ff. 1r, 132v); purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed on back flyleaf (i)v.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and the Catalogue of Hebrew Manuscripts in the Gaster Collection, the British Library, London; preface by Brad Sabin Hill; reproduced from the MS and typescript blue-slips prepared by Jacob Leeven, Joseph Rosenwasser and David Goldstein (London: Hebrew Section. Oriental and India Office Collection, 1996) (unpublished copy is available in the AAS reading room).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9885 (digital images currently unavailable)

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