Hard-coded id of currently selected item: . JSON version of its record is available from Blacklight on e.g. ??


Metadata associated with selected item should appear here...

Or 9924

Record Id:
032-003353678
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-003353678
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100037095242.0x000001
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
Or 9924
Title:
Targum to Esther
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Hierarchy Tree:
[{ "id" : "032-003353678", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Or 9924: Targum to Esther" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-003353678
Is part of:
not applicable
Hierarchy:
032-003353678
Container:
not applicable
Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
29 folios (bound together with another MS: i+29+i+10+i)
Digitised Content:
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9924 (digital images currently unavailable)
Thumbnail:
Languages:
Hebrew
Italian
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Latin
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1500-1699
Era:
CE
Access:

Please request the physical items you need using the online collection item request form.

Digitised items can be viewed online by clicking the thumbnail image or digitised content link.

Readers who have registered or renewed their pass since 21 March 2024 can request physical items prior to visiting the Library by completing
this request form.
Please enter the Reference (shelfmark) above on the request form.

If your Reader Pass was issued before this date, you will need to visit the Library in London or Yorkshire to renew it before you can request items online. All manuscripts and archives must be consulted at the Library in London.

This catalogue record may describe a collection of items which cannot all be requested together. Please use the hierarchy viewer to navigate to individual items. Some items may be in use or restricted for other reasons. If you would like to check the availability, contact our Reference Services team, quoting the Reference (shelfmark) above.

User Conditions:
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 9924

Targum to Esther

Contents

Targum to the Book of Esther

Language(s): Jewish Babalonia Aramaic, Hebrew, Italian

ff. 1r-28r
Author:
Title: תרגום שני לאסתר
Title: Targum sheni le-Ester

Title page on fol. 1r: התרגום שני של שלמה צבע יצ"ו מסניגאליא שנת התקי"א לבריאת העולם נדפס זה הספר.

Italian notes in the margins on fols. 2r-2v by the scribe.

Bound together with Or 9925.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th-17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; watermark: an anchor in a circle with a six-pointed star on top and the monogramme 'SS'?) underneath.
Extent: 29 folios (bound together with another MS: i+29+i+10+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 187 × 138 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil in the middle of the outer margin, fol. 11 was left out, this additional foliation on fols. 1-12 to amend the mistake.

Parallel Hebrew foliation starting on fol. 2 (title page is not foliated).

Fol. 29 used to be the back flyleaf.

Collation

Leaves and sometimes bifolia on guards.

Catchword on almost every page.

Condition

Usage stains, water damage, worm damage.

Layout

Columns:1

Running title.

Word at the beginning of sections is written with larger, square characters.

Ruling is visible (hard point).

Hand(s)

Italian Hebrew cursive script and Italian cursive script of the 16th-17th century.

Decoration

Title page within a decorated arch, in ink.

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Targum of Esther & Version of Daniel. Aram&Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 9924&9925.'

History

Origin: 1500-1699 16th-17th century Italy (Senigallia)

Provenance and Acquisition

Owner's inscription on fol. 1r: "Questo libro è del'sig[no]r Salomon Zabban della Città di Sinigalia".

M. Gaster's note on fol. 1r: "Neapel X. 899."

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 299: inscribed with his name on fols. 1r, 28r; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed on back flyleaf (i)v.

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

WARNING: Under current circumstances, not all items are available for consultation and orders can only be placed within Reading Rooms. Please contact Reading Room staff at the British Library for information on availability and for help with placing orders.

Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9924 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing

BL