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Or 9889

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032-003353442
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Or 9889
Title:
Pentateuch (Gen. 1:10-Ex. 37:4)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
154 folios (ii+154+ii)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9889 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1400-1599
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 9889

Pentateuch (Gen. 1:10-Ex. 37:4)

Contents

Pentateuch (Gen. 1:10-Ex. 37:4)

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-154v
Author:
Title: תורה (בראשית א:י-שמות לז:ד)
Title: Torah (Be-reshit 1:10-Shemot 37:4)

With masorah magna and parva.

ff. 1r-84v
Title: Genesis

Begins in the middle of Gen. 1:10.

ff. 85r-154v
Title: Exodus

Ends at Ex. 37:4-5.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th-16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Oriental paper
Extent: 154 folios (ii+154+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 250 × 190 mm.
Dimensions (written): 225 × 140 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals.

Number of folios is incorrectly given in the accession note: ff. 254 instead of 154!

Collation

Indeterminable

Leaves on guards.

Condition

Leaves are very fragile, some fragmentary, some have been fixed.

Fol. 150.

Water damage, usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 17

Written lines: 17

Uniform layout.

Masorah in the margins.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square script of the 15th century, punctuated.

Decoration

Additions:

M. Gaster's note about the date of the MS on front flyleaf (i)r: "ca. 1050-1100 M.G."

Binding

BM in-house, half bound.

Spine: 'Genesis & Exodus. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 9889.'

History

Origin: 15th-16th century ; Yemen?

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 729: inscribed with his name on fol. 1r; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed on back flyleaf (ii)v; date of accession 5 May 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_9889 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

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