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Or 9953

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032-003314137
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Or 9953
Title:
Collection of midrashic works
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
22 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9953 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Persian
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1400-1599
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 9953

Collection of midrashic works

Contents

Collection of midrashic pieces, some with Judeo-Persian glosses.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Persian

ff. 1r-1v
Title: מסכת כלה (קטע)
Title: Masekhet Kalah (ḳeṭaʻ)

Fragment, only the end of the tractate.

ff. 1v-7v
Title: יצירת הולד
Title: Yetsirat ha-ṿalad

ff. 8v-12r
Title: דין הקבר
Title: Din ha-ḳever

Folios 8r-8v: end of another midrash.

ff. 12v-12v
Title: מדרש שקלים
Title: Midrash Sheḳalim

ff. 12v-19r
Title: מדרש מגלה : מדרש על מגלת אסתר
Title: Midrash megilah : midrash ʻal megilat Ester

ff. 19r-22v
Title: סדר תנאים אמוראים וסבוראים
Title: Seder Tanaʼim Amoraʼim ṿe-Savoraʼim

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Oriental paper.
Extent: 22 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 222 × 157 mm.
Dimensions (written): 160/170 × 110 mm.
Foliation:

22 folios (+ 1 unfoliated flyleaf at the beginning and 2 at the end).

Collation

Leaves on guards. Catchwords on the verso side, but lower part of the leaves is often missing, patched.

Condition

Paper patched in many places.

Silk gauze in some places.

Stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Layout is not uniform, different hands.

Visible ruling with mastara.

Hand(s)

Persian semi-cursive script.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Oriental 9953. Brit. Mus. Midrashic Fragments. Hebrew.'

History

Origin: 15th-16th century ; Orient

Provenance and Acquisition

1924-04-12

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1084: inscribed with his name (folio 22v); 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_9953 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing

BL