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Or 10696

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Or 10696
Title:
Maʿaśeh de-ʾoto ṿe-et beno
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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:
8 folios (i+8+i)
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1700-1799
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CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Or 10696

Maʿaśeh de-ʾoto ṿe-et beno

Contents

A version of Toldot Yeshu, a polemical work about Jesus.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-8r
Author:
Title: מעשה דאותו ואת בנו (תולדות ישו)
Title: Maʿaśeh de-ʾoto ṿe-et beno (Toldot Yeshu)

Title on front cover: מעשה דאותו ואת בנו.

This version seems to correspond with MS Vindobona (Krauss, Das Leben Jesu, 64-117), the present location of which is unknown; see Toledot Yeshu: The Life Story of Jesus. v. 1, p. 20.

For the transliteration of the text, see: http://lemidrash.free.fr/JudaismeChristianisme/vindobona.pdf.

The copyist did not complete the copying of the book, and the end is missing.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, Maltese cross with two crescents above it, in a crowned shield (e.g. ff. 2, 6, 8).
Extent: 8 folios (i+8+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 257 × 163 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

A single quire of 10 leaves (including flyleaves).

Catchword on every page.

Condition

Usage stains, slight water damage, slight iron gall ink corrosion.

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 25

Uniform layout.

Hand(s)

Italian Hebrew cursive script of the 18th century.

Binding

Post-1600. Marble paper binding. On the front cover collaged label with the title. Boxed.

History

Origin: 1700-1799 18th century Italy?

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 52; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 20 July 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_10696 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Meerson, Michael and Peter Schäfer, eds. Toledot Yeshu: The Life Story of Jesus: Two Volumes and Database.2 vols. (Berlin: Mohr Siebeck, 2014).

Funding of Cataloguing

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