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Or 9891

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Or 9891
Title:
Pentateuch (Leviticus-Deuteronomy)
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
157 folios (ii+157+i)
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Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1879
Date Range:
1700-1879
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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Or 9891

Pentateuch (Leviticus-Deuteronomy)

Contents

Summary of Contents: Pentateuch (Leviticus-Deuteronomy) with Targum Onkelos, Sa'adia Gaon's and Rashi's commentaries in the margins (fols. 1bv-51r).

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1bv-156v
Author:
Title: תורה (ויקרא-דברים)
Title: Torah (Ṿa-yiḳra-Devarim)

Second volume of a 2-volume set, for volume 1, see Or 9890.

With vowel points, accents and Masorah Parva.

Targum and commentary up to Numbers 3:1 on fol. 51r, and then again some commentary on fol. 58v (Numbers 7:2).

ff. 1bv-46v
Title: Leviticus
ff. 47r-106v
Title: Numbers
ff. 106v-156v
Title: Deuteronomy

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th-19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; tre-lune watermark.
Extent: 157 folios (ii+157+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 225 × 160 mm.
Dimensions (written): 185/170 × 125/100 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Fol. 1av is blank.

Collation

Rashi's commentary has catchwords on every verso, biblical text lacks catchwords altogether.

Condition

Usage stains, smudged ink stains.

Worm damage on binding.

Layout

Columns:1

Page layout is not uniform: fols. 1bv-58v: biblical text is in the inner column of the page, outer column is left for the Targum and the commentaries, with running title (parashiyot); fols. 59r-156v: biblical text occupies the entire page.

Some marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square script of the 18th-19th century.

Fols. 1bv-58v: smaller, more vertically elongated characters.

Fols. 59r-156v: larger, more square shaped characters.

Decoration

Decorated initial-word panel (fols. 1bv, 47r).

Parashah signs have simple ink decorations (e.g. fols. 7v, 79v, 88v, 118v, 142v).

Additions:

Note starting with a quotation from Proverbs (19:23) on fol. 1ar.

Erased note on fol. 157v.

Scribbles on front flyleaf (ii)r, fols. 1ar.

Binding

Post-1600. Brown leather binding, blind-tooled.

Spine: 'Pentateuch. Hebrew & Aramaic. II. Brit. Mus. Oriental 9891.'

History

Origin: 18th-19th century, not after 1879. ; Yemen?

Provenance and Acquisition

Ownership inscription on fol. 1br: זה ... במלך עבד יי סעיד ן' יוספ ... לכבוד ועבודת השם הב"ה יזכינו לסעאק אכיר, סעיר ן' יוספ ...למתה למוסי ן' ... יוספ אלחמאמי ד' קכ'... ... (the latter is erased, difficult to decipher) f. 1br

Birth record on fol. 157r dated 1879 (6 Shevat 2190 SE).

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 237: inscribed with his name on fols. 1br, 156v; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed on back flyleaf (i)v: date of accession 15 February 1928: inscribed on fol. 157v.

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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