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Or 10804

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032-003399363
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Or 10804
Title:
Genizah fragments
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
10 folios (iii+10+iv)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1400-1799
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 10804

Genizah fragments

Contents

Two fragments.

Language(s): Hebrew

Physical Description

Composite paper codex of the 17th-18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 10 folios (iii+10+iv)

Binding

Post-1600, brown buckram binding.

M. Gaster's label on spine: 'קובץ 1283'.

History

Origin: 1400-1799 15th-18th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Cairo Genizah.

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1283; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 13 January 1932.

I

Contents

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-6v
Title: דרשה לפרשת וילך
Title: Derashah le-farashat Ṿa-yelekh

Incomplete at the beginning and at the end.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, watermark: anchor in cicle (f. 5).
Extent: 6 folios (ff. 1-6)
Dimensions (leaf): 198 × 135 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

The last word on the verso is repeated on the following recto.

Condition

Water damage, loss of text, dirt, usage stains.

F. 4 is very fragmentary.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 20

Written lines: 20

Uniform layout.

Hand(s)

Oriental Hebrew cursive script of the 17th-18th century.

History

Origin: 1600-1799 17th-18th century

Provenance

II

Contents

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 7r-10v
Title: מדרש רבה (שיר השירים ב)
Title: Midrash Rabah (Shir ha-Shirim 2)

From Chapter 2: ff. 7-8: 5:3-7:1; ff. 9-10: 13:3-14:8.

References

T. Kadari, Zutot 13 (2016) p. 46.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines.
Extent: 6 folios (ff. 7-10)
Dimensions (leaf): 188 × 135 mm.
Dimensions (written): 148 × 95 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil; continuous with previous part.

Collation

Condition

Usage stains, dirt, glue stains, worm damage.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 27

Written lines: 27

Uniform layout.

Marginal notes by a modern hand.

Hand(s)

Oriental Hebrew semi-cursive script of the 15th-16th century.

Decoration

Additions:

History

Origin: 1400-1599 15th-16th century

Provenance

Additional Information

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel.

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Surrogates

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Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing

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