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Or 9911

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032-003314129
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Or 9911
Title:
Yiddish paraphrase of Genesis and Exodus
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
49 folios
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Languages:
Yiddish
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1831
End Date:
1903
Date Range:
1831-1903
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
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 9911

Yiddish paraphrase of Genesis and Exodus

Contents

A Yiddish paraphrase of Genesis and Exodus (1-21)

Language(s): Yiddish

Title: פרוש התורה :ביידיש
Title: Perush ha-Torah :be-Yidish

Extending to Parashat Mishpatim, only until the beginning of the weekly Parshiyot, concerns Miḳrei Dardaḳei.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper(watermark: Kronstadt 1831).
Extent: 49 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 360 × 220 mm.
Dimensions (written): 330 × 195 mm.
Foliation:

49 folios (+ 3 unfoliated leaves at the end + 1 unfoliated modern flyleaf at the beginning and at the end).

Folios 47v and 48r are blank.

Collation

Indeterminable (binding too tight). No catchwords.

Condition

Layout

Columns:1

No ruling, lines are curved or misaligned.

Very narrow margins left.

Scribbles and a citation on folio 48v.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi cursive script of the 19th century.

Decoration

Doodle of a man f. 48v .

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Or. 9911. Brit. Mus. Genesis & Exodus. Hebrew & German.'

History

Origin: After 1830 - before 1903

Provenance and Acquisition

Ownership inscription: 'M. Gaster, a present from my father vii. 903.'

1924-04-12

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 584: inscribed with his name (folio 1r); purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed (back flyleaf [iv]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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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9911 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing

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