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Or 9912

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032-003314130
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Or 9912
Title:
Targumic paraphrase to the Song of Songs with Arabic translation
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
41 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9912 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1800
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1800-1899
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 9912

Targumic paraphrase to the Song of Songs with Arabic translation

Contents

Targumic paraphrase to the Song of Songs accompanied with an Arabic translation

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

Title: כתובים (שיר השירים).
Title: Ketuvim (Shir ha-Shirim)

With an Aramaic translation, and an Arabic translation of the Aramaic translation, after every verse.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper without chain and laid lines, no watermark.
Extent: 41 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 178 × 110 mm.
Dimensions (written): 140 × 85 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals. 41 folios (+ 1 unfoliated modern flyleaf at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Indeterminable (binding too tight). Catchwords on every recto and verso.

Ruling in pencil.

Condition

Uniform layout.

Slight water damage.

Scribbles on the first and last pages (folios 1r and 41v).

Layout

Columns:1

Pencil ruling (frames only).

Running title in the upper margins.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square script of the 19th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Brit. Mus. Or. 9912. Song of Songs. Aramaic & Arabic.'

History

Origin: 19th century

Provenance and Acquisition

1924-04-12

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 753: inscribed with his name (folio 1r); 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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Funding of Cataloguing

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