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Or 9963

Record Id:
032-003320333
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032-003320333
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TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
Or 9963
Title:
Miscellany
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
13 folios (i+13+i)
Digitised Content:
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9963 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1700-1899
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 9963

Miscellany

Contents

Collection of miscellaneous texts

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew, Jewish Babalonia Aramaic

ff. 1r-5r
Language(s): Hebrew
Author:
Title: מעשה שלמה המלך
Title: Maʻaśeh Shelomoh ha-melekh
Incipit: והיא מתקנאת על זה הדבר f. 1r

Incomplete in the beginning.

References

Gaster, Moses,The exempla of the rabbis : being a collection of exempla, apologues and tales culled from Hebrew manuscripts and rare Hebrew books (London: The Asia Pub. Co, 1924), p. 128, no. 351b.
ff. 5r-6r
Language(s): Jewish Babalonia Aramaic
Author:
Title: טעם נחמד: על דיני נטילת ידים
Title: Ṭaʿam neḥmad: ʿal dine neṭilat yadayim

ff. 7r-13v
Language(s): Judeo-Arabic
Author:
Title: שירות ותושבחות
Title: Shirot ṿe-tushbaḥot

References

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th-19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper, watermark is only partially visible.
Extent: 13 folios (i+13+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 127 × 75 mm.
Foliation:

Foliated by M. Gaster in Arabic numerals in pen.

Collation

Indeterminable.

Some catchwords.

Condition

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Narrow margins.

Untidy script with corrections, erasures.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square script of the 18th-19th century.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house, brown cloth binding.

Spine: 'OR. 9963. Brit. Mus. Story,&c. Hebrew & Arabic.'

History

Origin: 18th-19th century ; Yemen?

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 256: inscribed with his name on fols. 1r, 13v; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed on back flyleaf (i)v; date of accession: 18 February 1928: inscribed on back flyleaf (i)r.

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_9963 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing

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