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Add MS 11659
Title:
New Testament (Gospels in Hebrew)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
134 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1805
End Date:
1805
Date Range:
1805
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Esther Gravell
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 11659

New Testament (Gospels in Hebrew)

Contents

The four Gospels in the Hebrew translation.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 4r-134v
Title: Berit ḥadashah
Title: ברית חדשה
ff. 4r-42r
Title: Matthew
ff. 42r-66r
Title: Mark
ff. 66r-103r
Title: Luke
ff. 103r-134v
Title: John

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 134 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 198 × 158 mm.
Foliation:

134 folios (+ 1 modern paper flyleaf at the beginning and 2 at the end).

Condition

Fragile boards.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 21

Written lines: 21

Uniform layout.

Modern ruled notebook.

Running titles.

Sections numbered in the margin.

Hand(s)

Square script, punctuated, of the 19th century.

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Gospels in Hebrew. Translated by Tho. Yeats. Mus. Brit. Presented by Mrs E. Gravel. 11, 659. Plut. COXLIII.D.'

History

Origin: 1805 England (London)

Provenance and Acquisition

Folio 1v: an account of the translation, printed by the London Society for the Promotion of Christianity among the Jews.

Folio 2v: an English description of the manuscript, a paste-down, with four seals.

Esther Gravell, sister of the translator: presented this manuscript to the British Museum on his request on 4 November 1839: inscribed with her name on folio 2v.

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_11659 (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. 162.

Funding of Cataloguing

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