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Or 10193

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Or 10193
Title:
Fragments in Judeo-Persian
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
37 folios (i+37+i)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10193 (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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Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 10193

Fragments in Judeo-Persian

Contents

Summary of Contents: Part of a collection of stories, comprising an incomplete version of Ḥikāyat-i Naurūz Shāh va Naubahār and other fragments.

Language(s): Judeo-Persian

ff. 1r-37v
Author:
Title: Maʿaśiyot
Title: מעשיות

Incomplete at the beginning and end.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; traces of unidentified watermark (e.g. ff. 3, 4, 5, 28). Some blue paper leaves in the collation (ff. 32, 36-37).
Extent: 37 folios (i+37+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 131 × 68 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Catchword on every page.

Condition

Water damage, smudge ink, usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 17

Written lines: 17

Oblong, 'safīnah' format; text is running perpendicular to the spine.

Section headings in larger characters.

Hand(s)

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

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

Post-1600, white cloth binding. Boxed.

Spine with M. Gaster's label: 'פרסי 777'.

History

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

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 777: inscribed with his name on f. 1r; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 7 March 1930.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and G. M. Meredith-Owens, Handlist of Persian Manuscripts 1895-1966 (London: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1968).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10193 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Meredith-Owens, G. M., Handlist of Persian Manuscripts 1895-1966 (London: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1968), p.42.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL