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Or 9974

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Or 9974
Title:
Sermons on the Pentateuch
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
193 folios (i+193+i)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Start Date:
1651
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1651
Date Range:
1651
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Hijri-qamari
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CE
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Ibn Shuaib, Joshua, fl 14th century
Ibn Shuaib, Joshua, fl 14th century
שועיב, יהושע אבן
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Or 9974

Sermons on the Pentateuch

Contents

A collection of sermons on the Pentateuch by Joshua ibn Shuaib.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-193r
Author: Ibn Shuaib, Joshua, active 14th century שועיב, יהושע אבן
Title: דרשות על התורה
Title: Derashot ʽal ha-Torah

Incomplete at the beginning, starts with the end of Parashat Bereshit.

Ending with a colophon of the printed Constantinople edition of 5283 AM (1522/1523 CE).

A few marginal notes.

Colophon: הכתיבתו ביום רביעי ששה ימים לחדש תמוז שנת א’תתקס"ג שנין לשטרות" f. 193r

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Yellowish paper with laid lines and chain lines; watermark: a hand (e.g. ff. 4, 7).
Extent: 193 folios (i+193+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 214 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): 162 × 103 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink by tyhe scribe: f. 1 = f. ד, which shows that at least 3 leaves are missing from the beginning.

Collation

Leaves on guards.

Catchword on almost every verso.

Condition

Fragile leaves, but they have been fixed, ff. 191-193 are very fragmentary.

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 33

Written lines: 1

Uniform layout.

Running titles.

Section headings in larger characters.

Pricking is visible in places.

Hand(s)

Yemenite semi-cursive script of the 17th century.

Decoration

Additions:

Ff. 193r-193v: faded notes.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Joshua b. Shuʿaib. Homilies on Pentateuch. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 9974.

History

Origin: 1651 Yemen (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 754; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 25 November 1927.

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_9974 (digital images currently unavailable)

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