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Or 10401

Record Id:
032-003366468
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TEI
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Or 10401
Title:
A collection of 'small books' copied from earlier MSS
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
100 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10401 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1900
End Date:
1924
Date Range:
1900-1924
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
Grossberg, Menasseh, rabbinical scholar, c 1860-1927
Grossberg, Menasseh, rabbinical scholar, c 1860-1927
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 10401

A collection of 'small books' copied from earlier MSS

Contents

A collection of 'small books' copied by Menasseh Grossberg from earlier MSS kept in Oxford.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-100r
Author:
Title:
Title:

Fols. 2r-3r: copy from [Oxford_BOD] MS. Oppenheim Add. 4° 4 (Neubauer 1565); fols. 4r-37r: copy from [Oxford_BOD] MS. Oppenheim Add. 4° 127 (Neubauer 2343);fols. 40r-48r [Oxford_BOD] MS. Heb. e. 2; fols. 49r-96r [Oxford_BOD] MS. Michael 243 (Neubauer 1619); fols. 97r-100r [Oxford_BOD] MS. Bodley Or. 108 (Neubauer 2233).

Physical Description

Paper codex of the early 20th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Pre-lined paper
Extent: 100 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 176 × 112 mm.
Dimensions (written): 135 × 80 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals, in pencil.

79 unfoliated blank leaves at the end (called as flyleaves in the digital surrogate).

Collation

No signatures, no catchwords.

Condition

Collation is partially detached from spine and back cover.

Layout

Columns:1

Text only on the recto side of the leaves.

Marbled edges.

A few notes on the verso side of the leaves.

Some underlining in red pencil.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi cursive script of the early 20th century. Copied by Menasseh Grossberg (1860-1927).

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

Post-1600. Red cloth binding. Boxed.

History

Origin: 1900-1924 1st quarter of the 20th century (not after 1924). England (Oxford)

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 366; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 14 March 1928.

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_10401 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing

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