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Or 9900

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032-003314125
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Or 9900
Title:
Parts of the Hagiographa
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
239 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9900 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1449
Date Range:
1400-1449
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 9900

Parts of the Hagiographa

Contents

Parts of the Hagiographa: Psalms, Proverbs, Job, and Five Scrolls.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-237r
Title: כתובים
Title: Ketuvim

Contains: parts of the Hagiographa: Psalms (ff. 6v-109v), Proverbs (ff. 110-146), Job (ff. 146v-188), Five Scrolls (Hamesh megillot; ff. 189-237).

Psalms was divided into 154 psalms.

With vowel points, accents and decorations (in the first part of the manuscript).

Unidentified text on folio 239v.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 239 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 92 × 62 mm.
Dimensions (written): 57 × 40 mm.
Foliation:

239 folios (+ 1 unfoliated modern flyleaf at the beginning and 1 older and 1 modern unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).

Collation

25 quires: i6-1, ii10, iii8, iv-xxiv10, xxv6.

Condition

Tidemark at head, sometimes at edges.

Front paper leaves repaired/infilled before rebinding.

Incomplete at the end.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 39

Written lines: 39

Uniform layout.

Hair and flesh sides are distinguishable.

Hand(s)

Sephardi semi-cursive script, punctuated.

Decoration

20 decorated chapter numbers in the Psalms with pen-flourishing, red and blue (ff. 6v, 7, 11v, 12, 12v, 13, 13v, 14, 15, 16, 17, 17v, 19, 19v, 20v, 21, 21v, 22, 22v, 23).

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house, half-bound.

Spine: 'Psalms, Prov., Job, & V Megilloth. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 9900.'

History

Origin: 1st half ot the 15th century ; Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

1924-04-12

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 712: inscribed with his name (folios 1r, 237r); 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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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9900 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing

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