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Or 9887

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Or 9887
Title:
Pentateuch (Genesis-Exodus)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
160 folios (ii+160+ii)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1600-1799
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
Sa'adia ben Joseph, Gaon, 882-942,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/95159227
Sa'adia ben Joseph, Gaon, 882-942,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/95159227
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 9887

Pentateuch (Genesis-Exodus)

Contents

Summary of Contents: Pentateuch (Genesis-Exodus). Each verse of the Pentateuch is followed by Targum Onkelos and Sa'adia Gaon's Arabic translation.

Language(s): Hebrew, Jewish Babalonia Aramaic, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-159v
Author:
Title: תורה (בראשית-שמות)
Title: Torah (Be-reshit-Shemot)

This is the first volume of a 2-volume set, for volume 2 see Or 9887.

Each verse is followed by Targum Onkelos and Sa'adia Gaon's Arabic translation.

Hebrew verses have Tiberian vocalisation, the Aramaic verses have superlinear vocalisation, and the Arabic version is not punctuated.

ff. 1r-89r
Title: Genesis
ff. 89r-159v
Title: Exodus

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th-18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 160 folios (ii+160+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 325 × 221 mm.
Dimensions (written): 250 × 160 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Catchword on every verso, mostly in Hebrew characters, sometimes in Arabic (e.g. fols. 4r, 36r), sometimes in both (e.g. fols. 12r, 50v).

Condition

Fragile leaves with cracks (e.g. fol. 42).

A large number of leaves have been restored.

Stains, smudged ink due to drops of liquid in numerous places.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 27

Written lines: 27

Fol. 1

Corrected version is on a paper slip glued on top of the text (fol. 155v).

A few marginal notes by various hands.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square and semi-cursive script of the 17th-18th century.

Decoration

Parashah signs with very simple ink decorations (e.g. fols. 16r, 31v, 43r, 59v, 75v, 94v, 102r).

Additions:

Scribbles in ink and in pencil in the margins throughout the MS (e.g. fols. 114v, 136v).

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Pentateuch. Hebrew. Aramaic & Arabic. I. Brit. Mus. Oriental 9887.'

History

Origin: 17th-18th century ; Yemen?

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 2; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed on back flyleaf (ii)v; date of accession 4 July 1927: 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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