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Or 9946

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Or 9946
Title:
Latter Prophets
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
111 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9946 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Ladino
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
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 9946

Latter Prophets

Contents

Latter Prophets

Language(s): Hebrew

Title: נביאים אחרונים
Title: Neviʼim aḥaronim

Contains: Isaiah (2:15-end; folios 2r-30r), Jeremiah (folios 30r-69v), Ezekiel (folios 70r-104v), Hosea (folios 104v-109r), Joel (folios 109r-111r), and Amos (1:1- 3:5; folios 111r-11v).

Completed by a later hand at the beginning, incomplete at the end.

With vowel points and accents.

Folios 1r-8r: Marginal notes in Ladino.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 111 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 220 × 186 mm.
Dimensions (written): 150 × 143 mm.
Foliation:

111 folios (+ 1 unfoliated modern flyleaf at the beginning and 1 unfoliated modern and 1 older flyleaf a the end). Folio 1 is a paper leaf added later.

Collation

14 quires: i6(folios 2-7), ii-xiv8.

Condition

Stains, mould spots, water damage.

Patched corners and margins.

Layout

Columns:3

Uniform layout.

Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.

Ruling is visible.

Hand(s)

Sephardi square script of the 15th century.

Decoration

Additions:

The beginning of Isaiah (1:1-2:15) is an addition by a later hand.

Binding

BM in-house with remains of the old binding.

Spine: 'Latter Prophets. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 9946'

History

Origin: 15th century ; Sepharad?

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1096: inscribed with his name (folio 1r); purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed (back flyleaf [iii]v).

Record Sources

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

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9946 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Tahan, Ilana, 'Judeo-Spanish Manuscripts in the British Library's Hebrew Collection', European Judaism: A Journal for the New Europe43, No. 2, The State of Ladino Studies I (2010), pp. 134-152, esp. p. 142.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL