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Or 9901
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- Format:
- TEI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 9901
- Title:
- Book of Psalms
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 125 folios (i+125+i)
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- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9901 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Hebrew
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- Hebrew
- Start Date:
- 1700
- End Date:
- 1899
- Date Range:
- 1700-1899
- Era:
- CE
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Or 9901
Book of Psalms
Contents
Book of Psalms
Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 1v-125vTitle: כתובים (תהלים)Title: Ketuvim (Tehilim)With the exception of Ps. 1-11, it is unpunctuated.
Fols. 1-7r: Baḳashah.
In the colophon, the owner’s name was erased (fol. 125r) and another name is written over it: Yuda Kalib; the copyist’s signature is difficult to decipher.
Colophon: "הדא ספר [חר יודא כליב] הנז' יזכהו להגות בו הוא וזרעו וז"ו [...] וברוך הקורא והגונב ארור הוא מנ"ו של מעלה ומב"ר של [...]". f. 125rPhysical Description
Paper codex of the 18th-19th century.Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, andpartially visible watermarks: unidentifiable watermark (fol. 5) and tre-lune watermark (fol. 11).Extent: 125 folios (i+125+i)Dimensions (leaf): 114 × 79 mm.Dimensions (written): 90 × 60 mm.Foliation:Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil in the upper left corner. Parallel foliation in pencil in Arabic numerals in the lower left corner - some leaves had been missed in this latter foliation after fol. 45, and thus it was cancelled.
Collation
Quires of mostly 8 leaves.
Catchword on almost every page.
Condition
Usage stains.
Layout
Columns:1
Ruled lines: 16
Written lines: 16
Running title.
Chapter numbers in Hebrew characters.
Hand(s)
Yemenite semi-cursive script of the 18th-19th century.
Decoration
Decorated initial-word panel on fol. 7v, at the beginning of the Book of Psalms.
Additions:Binding
Brown leather binding, blind-tooled, remains of two leather straps.
Spine: 'Psalms. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 9901.'
History
Origin: 18th-19th century ; Yemen?Provenance and Acquisition
Erased ownership(?) inscription on fol. 125v.
Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 46; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 16 July 1927: inscribed on fol. 125v.
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).Availability
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Surrogates
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9901 (digital images currently unavailable)
Bibliography
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Funding of Cataloguing
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