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Or 9925

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032-003353679
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Or 9925
Title:
Arabic translation of the Book of Daniel
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
10 folios (bound together with another MS: i+29+i+10+i)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1700-1799
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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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 9925

Arabic translation of the Book of Daniel

Contents

The Arabic translation of the Book of Daniel

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew

ff. 1r-9v
Author:
Title: תרגום ערבי לכתובים (דניאל)
Title: Targum ʽAravi la-Ketuvim (Daniy'el)

Incomplete at the beginning and at the end: starts in the middle of chapter 2 and ends in the middle of chapter 4.

Bound together with Or 9924.

Fol. 10, the original back flyleaf of the MS, contains a fragmnent in Arabic about the laws of salting meat.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; watermark: three six-pointed stars in a shield (fol. 9).
Extent: 10 folios (bound together with another MS: i+29+i+10+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 150 × 108 mm.
Dimensions (written): 115 × 82 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in (Western) Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel foliation in Eastern Arabic numerals in ink: fol. 2 = fol.٤, that is fol. 4 (upper left corner of fol. 1 is damaged). This shows that 2 leaves are missing from the beginning.

Unfoliated leaf before fol. 1 and fol. 10 itself used to be the flyleaves of this MS (before it was bound together with Or 9924).

Collation

Leaves on guards.

Catchword on every page.

Condition

Usage stains, smudged ink.

Layout

Columns:1

Double border in pencil around block of text.

Ruling is visible (hard point).

Hand(s)

Oriental cursive script of the 18th century.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

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

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1700-1799 18th century

Provenance and Acquisition

M. Gaster's note on fol. 1r partially overwritten: "Oct(Nov?) 97."

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 228: inscribed with his name on fols. 1r, 9v, 10r; 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).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9925 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing

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