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Or 9936

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032-003353731
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Or 9936
Title:
Commentary on the Pentateuch
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
89 folios (ii+89+ii)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1600-1699
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 9936

Commentary on the Pentateuch

Contents

Commentary on the Pentateuch

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-89v
Author:
Title: פרוש התורה (פרשת וישב - פרשת קרח)
Title: Perush ha-Torah (Parashat va-Yeshev - Parashat Koraḥ

Incomplete at the beginning and at the end. Contains: Parashat va-Yeshev - Parashat Koraḥ.

Mentions among others "the Rabbi, author of Kele Hemda" (Shmu’el Laniado).

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; tre-lune(?) watermark.
Extent: 89 folios (ii+89+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 214 × 155 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in the lower left corner.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink in the upper left corner; starting with fol. 64 (סד), which shows that at least 63 leaves are missing from the beginning.

Collation

Indeterminable.

Catchword on almost every page.

Condition

Water damage, usage stains.

Original flyleaves - front flyleaf (ii) and back flyleaf (i) - are damaged, had to be reinforced.

Layout

Columns:1

Some marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Oriental cursive script of the 17th century.

Decoration

Additions:

Back flyleaf (i)r: Hebrew note by different hand.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Commentary on Pentateuch. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 9936.'

History

Origin: 17th century ;

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 71; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed on back flyleaf (ii)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_9936 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing

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