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Or 9893

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032-003314124
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Or 9893
Title:
Pentateuch with Targum Onḳelos and Rashi's commentary
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
124 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9893 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1600-1799
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
שלמה בן יצחק(רשי),1040-1105
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Or 9893

Pentateuch with Targum Onḳelos and Rashi's commentary

Contents

Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy with Targum Onḳelos and Rashi's commentary

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-123r
Title: תורה (ויקרא-דברים)
Title: Torah (Ṿa-yiḳra-Devarim)
Author: שלמה בן יצחק(רש"י),1040-1105

With vowel points and accents.

With Targum Onḳelos after each verse and with Rashi's commentary in the lower margins.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th-18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Oriental paper.
Extent: 124 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 315 × 210 mm.
Dimensions (written): 260/290 × 165/190 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Indeterminable (tight binding, numerous leaves on guards).

Catchwords on every verso (both for Rashi's commentary and for main text).

Condition

Paper patched, fixed with silk gauze.

Some leaves are on guards.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 40

Written lines: 40

Number of lines differ from page to page.

Pricking or ruling is not visible.

Main text is punctuated, commentary in unpunctuated.

The layout and the script are both influenced by printed books.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square and semi-cursive script of the 18th century.

Additions:

Some lacunae supplied by a later hand on different paper (folios 1, 57, 58, 123, 124).

Binding

In-house, half-bound.

Spine: 'Leviticus and Deuteronomy. Hebrew & Aramaic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 9893.'

History

Origin: 17th-18th century ; Yemen?

Provenance and Acquisition

1924-04-12

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 326: inscribed with his name (folios 1r, 2r, 123v); purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed (back flyleaf (i)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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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9893 (digital images currently unavailable)

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Funding of Cataloguing

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