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Or 10180

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032-003379652
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Or 10180
Title:
Ketuvim (Ester)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
51 folios (i+51+iv)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1500-1599
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 10180

Ketuvim (Ester)

Contents

The Book of Ester (incomplete).

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1v-51r
Title: כתובים (אסתר)
Title: Ketuvim (Ester)

At the beginning (ff. 1v-3r) and at the end (ff. 48v-51r) of the manuscript are blessings over the reading of the scroll.

Incomplete at the beginning.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th(?) century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 51 folios (i+51+iv)
Dimensions (leaf): 74 × 63 mm.
Dimensions (written): 56 × 41 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

No catchwords.

Condition

Usage stains, damaged, fragile leaves, worm damage.

Text is faded away and hardly legible in places.

Lower part of the collation is damaged, every leaf is affected.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 9

Written lines: 9

Uniform layout.

Ruling is visible in places.

Hand(s)

Oriental Hebrew square script; vocalized.

Binding

Post-1600, black cloth binding. Boxed.

M. Gaster's label on spine: '273 מגילת אסתר - עמק [...]'.

History

Origin: 1500-1599 16th century?

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 273; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; 22 February 1928.

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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