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Or 10081

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Or 10081
Title:
Treatise on the names of God in the Pentateuch
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
52 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1300-1399
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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Or 10081

Treatise on the names of God in the Pentateuch

Contents

Treatise on the names of God in the Pentateuch

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1v-52v
Title: באור שמות קדש וחול
Title: Beʼur Shemot ḳodesh ṿe-ḥol

On the Torah, until Parashat Shoftim.

The title within the manuscripts attributes the work to Maimonides (on this see, Samuel Klein, Toldot ha-yishuv ha-Yehudi be-Erets-Yiśraʼel : me-ḥatimat ha-Talmud ʿad tenuʿat "Yishuv E.Y.," Tel-Aviv : "Mitspah" 695 [1935], p. 128).

At its end (ff. 50a-52a) is an excerpt from a composition on the grammar and the accents of the Bible, mentioning David Kimhi.

Filiation:

Published by Moses Gaster in Devir 1 (1922/23): 191-222.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 52 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 156 × 129 mm.
Dimensions (written): 105 × 90 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

6 quires of 8 leaves; last four folios (folios 49-52) are on guards.

Catchwords on every verso.

Condition

Some leaves are patched.

A few stains, especially towards the end.

Layout

Columns:1

Uniform layout.

Ruling is visible.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive script of the 14th century.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Or. 10081. Brit. Mus. Bē'ur Shemōth ḳodesh ve-ḥōl. Hebrew.'

History

Origin: ; [Orient]

Provenance and Acquisition

1924-04-12

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 81; 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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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10081 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

Bibliography

    [Klein_1935] Klein, Samuel. 'Toldot Ha-Yishuv Ha-Yehudi Be-Erets-Yiśraʼel : Me-Ḥatimat Ha-Talmud ʿad Tenuʿat “Yishuv E.Y.,.”'Tel-Aviv: Mitspah, 1935.

Funding of Cataloguing

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