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Or 10010

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032-003317479
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Or 10010
Title:
Pirke Avot (ch. 1-4) in Yiddish translation
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
20 folios (i+20+i)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10010 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Yiddish
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1800
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1800-1899
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Rashi, 1040-1105
Rashi, 1040-1105
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Or 10010

Pirke Avot (ch. 1-4) in Yiddish translation

Contents

Tractate Avot of the Mishnah in Yiddish translation

Language(s): Yiddish, Hebrew

ff. 1r-13v
Language(s): Yiddish
Author:
Title: תרגום המשנה ליידיש (אבות א-ד)
Title: Targum ha-Mishnah le-Yidish (Avot 1-4)

Translation is identical with the translation in BL, Or 10009.

f. 14v
Language(s): Hebrew, Yiddish
Author: שלמה בן יצחק (רש"י) Rashi, 1040-1105
Title: פרוש התורה לרש"י (דברים ט:יח-יז:ו)
Title: Perush ha-Torah le-Rashi (Devarim 9:18-17:6)

On Parashat Shofṭim.

ff. 15r-20r
Author:
Title: לעבענס לויף: תולדות חבל הריין
Title: Lebens loyf: toldot ḥevel ha-Rain

On fol. 15r a short grammatical note and a list of names including Izik Zinger who is inscribed at the end of the MS on fol. 20r.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 20 folios (i+20+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 175 × 105 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals.

Collation

Leaves on guards. No catchwords.

Condition

Some stains, smudged ink.

Layout

Columns:1

Number of lines varies page by page.

Ruling in pencil is visible (except fols. 16v-20r).

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi cursive scripts of the 19th century.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Sprüche der Väter. German. Brit. Mus. 10.010.'

History

Origin: 19th century ; Ashkenaz

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 532; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed on back flyleaf (i)v.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and the Catalogue of Hebrew Manuscripts in the Gaster Collection, the British Library, London; preface by Brad Sabin Hill; reproduced from the MS and typescript blue-slips prepared by Jacob Leeven, Joseph Rosenwasser and David Goldstein (London: Hebrew Section. Oriental and India Office Collection, 1996) (unpublished copy is available in the AAS reading room).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10010 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing

BL