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Or 10134

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032-003354970
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Reference (shelfmark):
Or 10134
Title:
Prayers and Psalms in Hungarian
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
79 folios (iii+79+ii)
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Hungarian
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1851
Date Range:
1700-1851
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 10134

Prayers and Psalms in Hungarian

Contents

Prayers and a collection of Psalms in Hungarian translation.

Language(s): Hungarian

Physical Description

Composite paper codex of the 18th-19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 79 folios (iii+79+ii)

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: '[Prayer] Hungarian. British Library O.R. 10134.'

History

Origin: 1700-1851 Romania (Transylvania) or Hungary

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1362: inscribed with his name on front flyleaf (iii)r, fol. 79r; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed on back flyleaf (i)v; date of accession 1 February 1932: inscribed on fol. 79r.

I

Contents

ff. 1r-48v
Language(s): Hungarian
Author:
Title: Prayers and some of the Psalms, in Hungarian translation
Incipit: "Enek penteken este"

Colophon: 1851dik eztendőben készüt juniusnak 3 harmadikkán Ez küs könyv (front flyleaf (iii)v).

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper without laid lines or chain lines.
Extent: 48 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 183 × 152 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil (from left to right).

Pagination in the upper margin in ink by the scribe from fol. 15v.

Collation

Condition

Fol. 1 is damaged, has been patched.

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Very narrow margins.

No ruling.

Titles written in larger characters.

Hand(s)

Hungarian (Latin) cursive script of the 19th century.

Accompanying Material

Paper slip glued onto unfoliated guard leaf between fols. 36 and 37.

History

Origin: 1851 ; Romania (Transylvania) or Hungary

Provenance

Note on a paper slip glued onto an unfoliated guard leaf between fols. 36 and 37: "Dániel Sámuel 2 új forintrol szollo kötelezvénye.".

II

Contents

ff. 49r-79r
Language(s): Hungarian
Author:
Title: Prayers and some of the Psalms, in Hungarian translation

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; and with traces of watermark.
Extent: 31 folios (fols. 49-79)
Dimensions (leaf): 182 × 150 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil, continuous with previous part.

Pagination in blank ink starting on fol. 49 (= page 1).

Collation

Catchword on every page.

Condition

Usage stains, worm damage.

Fol. 79 is damaged, has been patched.

Layout

Columns:1

Uniform layout.

Some of the section headings are in square characters.

Very narrow margins.

Some corrections.

Hand(s)

Hungarian (Latin) semi-cursive and square script of the 18th-19th century.

Decoration

Initials with simple ink decorations (e.g. fols. 57v, 68v, 71v)

History

Origin: 18th-19th century ; Romania (Transylvania) or Hungary

Provenance

Note in pencil: "Ludasi rokonság".

Additional Information

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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Custodial History

Back flyleaf (i)v: record of treatment, dated July-August 1996.

Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10134 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing

BL