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Or 10577

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Or 10577
Title:
Tafsir ha-Torah be-Farsit
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
138 folios (iii+138+iii)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10577 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Judeo-Persian
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1400-1599
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Or 10577

Tafsir ha-Torah be-Farsit

Contents

Commentary on the Pentateuch in Judeo-Persian.

Language(s): Judaeo-Persian

ff. 1r-124v
Author:
Title: תפסיר התורה בפרסית
Title: Tafsir ha-Torah be-Farsit
ff. 1r-7r
Title: Genesis

Incomplete at the beginning.

Lacuna in the text between ff. 1v and 2r: f 1r: Parashat Lekh lekha (Gen. 12:1-17:27) - parashat Ṿa-yeraʾ (Gen. 18:1-22:24); f. 2r: Parashat Ṿa-yetse Yaʿaḳov (Gen. 28:10-32:3).

ff. 7r-12v
Title: Exodus

From the end of Parashat Noah.

ff. 13r-14r
Title: Leviticus

From Parashat Be-ḥuḳotai.

ff. 14r-19v
Title: Numbers
ff. 19v-27v
Title: Deuteronomy

Ff. 26r-28r copied by a different hand.

ff. 28r-36r
Title: Ezekiel
ff. 36r-53r
Title: Twelve Minor Prophets
ff. 53r-82v
Title: Psalms
ff. 82v-95v
Title: Proverbs
ff. 95v-104r
Title: Job
ff. 104r-113r
Title: Daniel
ff. 113v-118r
Title: Ezra
ff. 118r-120v
Title: Nehemiah

Incomplete at the end.

ff. 121r-124v
Title: Chronicles
ff. 125v-126r
Title: Ruth
ff. 126r-132r
Title: Lamentations
ff. 132v-137r
Title: Ecclesiastes
ff. 137r-137v
Title: Esther

Incomplete at the end.

ff. 138r-137r
Title: Song of Songs

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th-16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with no laid lines or chain lines.
Extent: 138 folios (iii+138+iii)
Dimensions (leaf): 185 × 125 mm.
Dimensions (written): 170 × 85 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals.

Collation

Bound anew. Currently 14 quires: i-xii10, xiii8, xiv10.

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

Very fragile leaves.

Usage stains, smudged ink, iron gall ink corrosion.

Numerous leaves have been fixed.

Layout

Columns:1

Uniform layout. Section headings are often written in larger characters.

Even left margins.

Hand(s)

Persian Hebrew square script of the 15th-16th century, mostly punctuated.

Additions:

Ff. 26-27, 125-138 are added by a different hand.

Binding

BL in-house, parchment binding.

History

Origin: 1400-1599 15th-16th century Persia?

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1082; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10577 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing

BL