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Or 9922

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Or 9922
Title:
Song of Songs in Aramaic and Ladino
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
15 folios (i+15+i)
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Languages:
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Ladino
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1700-1899
Era:
CE
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Or 9922

Song of Songs in Aramaic and Ladino

Contents

Aramaic and Ladino translation of the Song of Songs.

Language(s): Jewish Babalonia Aramaic, Ladino

ff. 1r-14r
Author:
Title: תרגום ארמי וספרדי לכתובים (שיר השירים)
Title: Targum Arami ṿe-Sefardi la-Ketuvim (Shir ha-Shirim)
Incipit: שירין ותושבחן די אמר. שלמה נביא מלכא דישראל ברוח נביאה f. 1r

The Aramaic and the Ladino translation alternate.

Spanish and Italian interlinear comments in pencil.

Most probably a textbook written by student for his own use (perhaps by Mondolfo, whose ownership note is at the end). Doodle in pencil with caption: 'sono [...]uppa Bidello' (fol. 5v).

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th-19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper, different watermarks partially visible.
Extent: 15 folios (i+15+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 191 × 141 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

A single quire of 16-1 leaves.

Condition

Usage stains, ink stains, water damage.

Leaves patched.

Layout

Columns:1

Except fol. 6, text is only on the verso side, probably because the ink shows through the paper.

Ruling in pencil is visible.

Hand(s)

Hebrew square script of the 18th-19th century, punctuated. Fol. 6 is written by a different hand.

Decoration

Ink drawing of a house on fol. 14r.

Additions:

Calculations on fol. 15v.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'OR. 9922. Brit. Mus. Aram.&Spanish. Targum to Song of Songs.'

History

Origin: 18th-19th century ; Italy?

Provenance and Acquisition

Ownership inscription on fol. 15r: זה הספר של ר[פאל] ... חי ... מונדולפו.

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 147; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed on back flyleaf (i)v; date of accession: 21 September 1927.

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_9922 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

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