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Or 9886

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Or 9886
Title:
Pentateuch
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
151 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9886 (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, יוסף בן זכריה
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Or 9886

Pentateuch

Contents

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

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1v-151
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 (f. 132v). Volume 2 (Or 9886) containing Leviticus 4:12 (ff. 1r-44r), Numbers (ff. 44r-101v), and Deuteronomy (ff. 102r-132v).

The verses from Leviticus 1:1-1:5, which appear at the head of part b, were supplemented by another hand. Parts of the manuscript were damaged and also supplemented by another hand.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Oriental paper.
Extent: 151 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 269 × 201 mm.
Dimensions (written): 215 × 130 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Leaves on guards.

Condition

Paper fixed in numerous places with silk gauze.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 20

Written lines: 20

Uniform layout.

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

Several leaves have been patched.

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 by Yosef ben Benayah in 1478 (colophon on f. 315v).

Decoration

Masorah in a micrographical form.

Additions:

Missing, damaged parts are supplied by a later hand. His colophon is on f. 151v: נשלם תקון זה התאג’ .. שנת ב’ אלפים ומאה וארבעין שנין לשטרי במאתא כיואן .. והמתקן חתכי [=סאלם בא"ת ב"ש] בן כבוד אבא מנחם בן סעדיה.

Binding

In-house, half-bound.

Spine: 'Pentateuch. Hebrew. II. Brit. Mus. Oriental 9886.'

History

Origin: 15th century ; Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

חמדי, יוסף בן זכריה: inscribed with his name, f. 151v.

1924-04-12

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 325: inscribed with his name (ff. 1r, 151v); purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed (back flyleaf [ii]v).

Record Sources

Catalogue of Hebrew Manuscripts in the Gaster Collection, the British Library, London (London: Hebrew Section. Oriental and India Office Collection, 1996).

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