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Or 9947

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Or 9947
Title:
Psalms in Hebrew and German
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
58 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9947 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Yiddish
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1806
End Date:
1809
Date Range:
1806-1809
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
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 9947

Psalms in Hebrew and German

Contents

Summary of Contents: Psalms 42-72 accompanied by the German version of Moses Mendelssohn and the commentaries of Obadiah ben Jacob Sforno and Judah Lowe.

Language(s): Hebrew and German in Hebrew characters.

ff. 1r-58r
Title: כתובים (תהלים מב-עב)
Title: Ketuvim (Tehilim 42-72)

Also contains: Obadiah ben Jacob Sforno's commentary on Psalms.

Imitation of printed books (see scribe's note on this on folio 1r).

Title page: "ספר תהלים עם תרגום אשכנזי מהרב ... משה בן מנחם זצ"ל [מנדלסון] ומבואר על ידי יואל ברי"ל נכתב על ידי משה בן כהר"ר אלעזר קן". f. 2r

Hebrew.

Copied in Hague by Moses ben Eleazar Kan in 1806 - 1809.

Colophon: בשער: "בשהייתי בפפ"ד שנת תקס"ג קניתי ספר תהילים עם פירוש אשכנזי מן החכם ר' משה דעסויא בעד חצי זהב. והי' הלוך וחסור מן הקאפיטל מ"ב עד ע"ג ולא בכלל והמה ל"א קאפיטלס ובאותו שעה קבלתי עלי קבלה בלב אם יהי' לי פנאי אכתוב ואמלא אותן החסרים בדמותם ובצלמם כאשר המה היו דפוסים ואחר חזרתי להאג שנת תקס"ו התחלתי לכתוב בחודש תמוז עד אלול. וכן עשיתי ארבה שנים רצופים לכתוב בשני חדשים הנ"ל ויכל משה את המלאכה ר"ח אלול תקס"ט לפ"ק".

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 58 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 175 × 116 mm.
Dimensions (written): 135 × 85 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Indeterminable (binding too tight).

Condition

Some small stains, especially at the beginning.

Layout

Columns:1

Uniform layout.

Main text surrounded by the commentary in the inner, outer and lower margins.

Running title in the upper margin.

Ruling in pencil, often visible.

Hand(s)

Sephardic semi-cursive and square script; main Hebrew text is punctuated, German translation and commentary are not punctuated.

Both square and semi-cursive scripts are imitating printed types.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Psalms. Hebrew & German. Brit. Mus. Or. 9947.'

History

Origin: ; Netherlands (The Hague)

Provenance and Acquisition

1924-04-12

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 501: inscribed with his name (folio 1r); 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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Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing

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