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Or 10731

Record Id:
032-003399305
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Reference (shelfmark):
Or 10731
Title:
A collection of fragments.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
22 folios (in 21 sheets)
Digitised Content:
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10731 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1700-1799
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 10731

A collection of fragments.

Contents

Fragments mostly from two paper codices.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-22v
Title:
Title:

F. 3r: calligraphic signatures and date: 5500, that is, 1739/40.

F. 4v-12v: fragment of a rhyming dictionary (milon ha-ḥaruzzim)?

Ff. 1-2, 4-12, 20-22 seem to belong to the same codex; ff. 13-19 seem to belong to another codex.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Paper leaves of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 22 folios (in 21 sheets)
Dimensions (leaf): 220/198 × 170/141 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil, FROM LEFT TO RIGHT.

In the digital surrogate the folio numbers correspond to the melinex sheets (21 sheets) not the individual fragments.

Collation

Leaves are all in melinex sheets.

Condition

Usage stains, water damage.

Most of the leaves are incomplete, loss of text.

Layout

Columns:1 7

Leaves are mostly of the same codex.

Hand(s)

Oriental and Sefardi Hebrew cursive and square script of the 18th century.

Decoration

Additions:

Calculations e.g. on ff. 3v, 4r, 22v.

Signatures in Latin script on ff. 2r and 20v (in Italian).

Binding

BM/BL in-house blue postbinder.

M. Gaster's spine label is preserved withing the manuscript together with other labels of the original binding.

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1700-1799 18th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1386?; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 4 February.

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_10731 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing

BL