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Or 10009

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Or 10009
Title:
Yiddish translation of Mishnah (Tractate Avot)
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
43 folios (i+43+i)
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Languages:
German
Yiddish
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Hebrew
Latin
Start Date:
1830
End Date:
1830
Date Range:
1830
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 10009

Yiddish translation of Mishnah (Tractate Avot)

Contents

Yiddish translation of Mishnah, Tractate Avot.

Language(s): Yiddish, German

ff. 9r-43r
Author:
Title: תרגום המשנה ליידיש (אבות)
Title: Yiddish translation of Mishnah (Tractate Avot)

Identical to the translation which is in MS Or. 10010 (Gaster 532).

Also contains a translation of Perek Kinyan Torah.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper; watermark: a pair of griffons holding a crowned shield.
Extent: 43 folios (i+43+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 203 × 167 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals.

Collation

Indeterminable.

Condition

Usage stains, smudged ink.

Layout

Columns:1

Main text has uniform layout.

Running title: שפריכר דער פעטר.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi cursive script of the 19th century.

Decoration

Additions:

Fol. 1r-9v: At the head of the manuscript: a list with personal names, jottings, the name of the owner: Isaac Singer (probably the copyist of the manuscript), and on fol. 6v a text regarding Europe which he wrote in German.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'OR. 10009. Brit. Mus. Abhoth. German.'

History

Origin: 1830 Mussbach (Germany)

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 533: inscribed with his name on fols. 1r, 9r, 42v; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed on back flyleaf (i)v; date of accession: 8 April 1929.

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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