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Or 10435

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032-003375702
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Or 10435
Title:
Collection of Judeo-Arabic folk tales.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
18 folios (ii+18+ii)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10435 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1500-1699
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
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 10435

Collection of Judeo-Arabic folk tales.

Contents

A collection of fragments of aggadical texts.

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-2v
Author:
Title: מעשה אברהם ונמרוד (קטע)
Title: Maʿaśeh Avraham ṿe-Nimrod

Hebrew note in pencil on front flyleaf (ii)v: זה הוא התחלת ספר מעשה אברהם ונמרוד.

Lacuna after f. 1v; note in pencil: יושלם בספר שני דף א.

Incomplete.

ff. 3r-11v
Language(s): Judeo-Arabic
Author:
Title: דברי הימים למשה
Title: Divre ha-yamim le-Mosheh

Lacunae after f. 5v and 7v, 8v, 9v, .

Note in pencil on f. 11v: תשלום בדף 15

ff. 12r-16v
Language(s): Judeo-Arabic
Author:
Title: מעשה אסתר (קטע)
Title: Maʿaśeh Ester (ḳetaʿ)

ff. 17r-17v
Language(s): Judeo-Arabic
Author:
Title: מעשה זרובבל (קטע)
Title: Maʿaśeh Zerubavel (ḳetaʿ)

ff. 18r-18v
Author:
Title: תולדות ישו (קטע)
Title: Toldot Yeshu (ḳetaʿ)

References

Goldstein, Miriam, 'Judeo-Arabic Versions of Toledot Yeshu', p. 36 (https://www.ybz.org.il/_Uploads/dbsArticles/6a.pdf; accessed 24 April 2017).

Physical Description

Composite paper codex of the 16th-17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Various sorts of paper, all with laid lines and chain lines; ff. 13-16: tre-lune watermark.
Extent: 18 folios (ii+18+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 167/178 × 112/124 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Put together from different fragments.

Catchword on almost every verso.

Condition

Water damage, usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Not uniform layout; manuscript has been put together from various fragments.

Hand(s)

Oriental square scripts of the 16th-17th century. Ff. 4v-5r in black and red ink.

Decoration

Additions:

Front pastedown note in pencil: 'G. Jesus? Cairo? Karaite'.

Front flyleaf (i)r: note regarding the content of the manuscript in English.

Binding

Post-1600. White cloth binding.

History

Origin: 1500-1699 16th-17th century Orient

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1328; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 15 January 1932.

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_10435 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing

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