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Or 9958

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Or 9958
Title:
Baʽal ha-Ṭurim
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
202 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9958 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Start Date:
1652
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1652
Date Range:
1652
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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
אלדיאעי, דוד בן זכריה
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Or 9958

Baʽal ha-Ṭurim

Contents

Midrash on the Pentateuch

Language(s): Hebrew

Title: בעל הטורים
Title: Baʽal ha-Ṭurim

Midrash on the five books of the Torah.

Incomplete at the beginning.

Colophon: " ... נשלם מדקש חמשה חומשי תורה בעזרת אל גדול גבור ... יום חמישי דהוא עשרין ותלתא [יומין לחודש] טבת שנת א'תתקס"ג ש[ני]ן לשטרי במאתא ... ונכתב עלי שם החבר הטוב ... דוד בן זכריה הידוע אלידאעי ... והכותב ... דוד בן סעדיא בן דוד הידוע אלטייאני".
ff. 202r-202v

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Oriental paper.
Extent: 202 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 148 × 102 mm.
Dimensions (written): 115/120 × 70/75 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Indeterminable (binding too tight).

Catchwords on every verso.

Condition

Paper is patched; first 6 leaves are on guards.

Water damage.

Silk gauze on folio 1.

Layout

Columns:1

Marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Yemenite semi-cursive script of the 17th century.

The scribe's name is given in the colophon: Daṿid ben Saadia ben Daṿid.

Decoration

Ornamental parashah signs (e.g. folios 78v, 93v, 106r, 127v, 139r, 148r, 163v, 168r).

Decorated initial words at the beginning of Exodus and Leviticus (folios 62v, 114r, 141v, 176r).

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Midrash on Pentateuch. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 9958.'

History

Origin: ;

Provenance and Acquisition

Written for אלדיאעי, דוד בן זכריה.

1924-04-12

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 231: inscribed with his name (folios 2r, 113v, 201v, 202r); 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_9958 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing

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