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Or 9884

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Or 9884
Title:
Pentateuch with Prophetic readings
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
322 folios (i+322+i)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Persian
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Josiah ben Mevorakh al-ʿAqūlī
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 9884

Pentateuch with Prophetic readings

Contents

Pentateuch with Prophetic readings

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Persian

ff. 8r-322v
Author:
Title: תורה
Title: Torah

With vowel points and accents.

ff. 8r-52r
Title: Genesis

Gen. 1:1-11:17 on fols. 1-7 were added later.

ff. 52r-107v
Title: Exodus

ff. 108r-141v
Title: Leviticus

Some parashah signs are decorated with very simple ink decoration (e.g. fols. 120r, 122v, 126r).

ff. 142r-189r
Title: Numbers

ff. 189v-230v
Title: Deuteronomy

ff. 231r-307v
Title: הפטרות ‬
Title: Hafṭarot
ff. 308r-322r
Language(s): Judeo-Persian
Title: מחזור דולאבי
Title: Maḥzor Dolabi

Josiah ben Mevorakh al-ʿAqūlī's calendar.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Oriental paper
Extent: 322 folios (i+322+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 169 × 125 mm.
Dimensions (written): 128 × 83 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals.

Collation

Indeterminable (binding too tight).

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

Usage stains, smudged ink.

Water damage.

Some leaves have been reinforced.

Fol. 1 is fragmentary.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 21

Written lines: 21

Ruling (with mastara?) is visible.

Fols. 2v-23r: running title added by a later hand.

A few marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Oriental (Persian) square script of the 15th century.

Decoration

Additions:

Hebrew note on fol. 322r.

Fol. 322v: Poem in Hebrew added by a different hand.

Binding

BM in-house, half-bound.

Spine: 'Pentateuch & Haphṭaroth. Hebrew & Persian. Brit. Mus. Oriental 9884.'

Accompanying Material

Fols. 1-7: Gen. 1:1-1:11: later addition, different kind of paper (with laid and chain lines, traces of watermark), later hand.

Small paper slip is fixed into the leaf encapsulating the fragment of fol. 1. On the paper slip French description of the MS.

History

Origin: 15th century ;

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 75: inscribed with his name on fols. 2r, 322r (stamped); purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed on back flyleaf (i)v; date of accession 2 August 1927: inscribed on fol. 322v.

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_9884 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Tobi, Yosef, The Jews of Yemen: Studies in Their History and Culture (Leiden: Brill, 1999), p. 215 n12. Vidro, Nadia, 'The origins of the 247-year calendar cycle', Aleph 17 (2017), p. 106.

Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing

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