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Add MS 18694

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Add MS 18694
Title:
Pentateuch in Yiddish
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
219 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_18694 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Yiddish
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1500-1599
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Adolphus Asher
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 18694

Pentateuch in Yiddish

Contents

The Pentateuch, in Yiddish translation.

Language(s): Yiddish

ff. 1r-219v
Title: Torah
Title: תורה
ff. 2r-58v
Title: Genesis
ff. 58v-102v
Title: Exodus
ff. 102v-136r
Title: Leviticus
ff. 136r-176v
Title: Numbers
ff. 176v-219v
Title: Deuteronomy

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 219 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 305 × 205 mm.
Foliation:

219 folios (+2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end of the manuscript).

Collation

Too tightly rebound.

Condition

Originally defective at the beginning and at the end; several leaves added in the 17th century to restore the text.

Several pages damaged or stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 21 34

Written lines: 21 34

Uniform layout.

Between 21 and 34 lines a page.

No ruling is visible.

Running titles.

Large square initial words.

Catchwords on every verso, partly cut off.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi cursive script of the 16th century.

ff. 1-2
added by a scribe of the 17th century to replace lost leaves.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'The Pentateuch. In German In Hebrew Characters. Brit. Mus. Add. Or. 18,694.'

History

Origin: 1500-1599 16th century Germany

Provenance and Acquisition

Adolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum (see Paisey, D., 'Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi' British Library Journal 12 (1997), pp. 131-153): purchased from him on 24 May 1851: inscribed, [220v].

1851-05-24

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_18694 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), no. 102.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL