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Or 14700

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Or 14700
Title:
Gaster-Kohut correspondence (typewritten)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
22 folios
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Languages:
English
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1926
End Date:
1927
Date Range:
1926-1927
Era:
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
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Kohut, George Alexander, 1874-1933
Kohut, George Alexander, 1874-1933
Loewe, Herbert Martin James, 1882-1940
Loewe, Herbert Martin James, 1882-1940
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 14700

Gaster-Kohut correspondence (typewritten)

Contents

Summary of Contents: Correspondence between Moses Gaster and George Alexander Kohut from the years 1926-1927, and an unpublished handwritten article by G.A. Kohut, and a typewritten work by Herbert Loewe.

Language(s): English

ff. 1r-22v
Author: Gaster, Moses, 1856-1939
Author: Kohut, George Alexander, 1874-1933
Author: Loewe, H. (Herbert), 1882-1940
Title: Gaster-Kohut-Loewe Correspondence

Ff. 1-13: correspondence between Moses Gaster and G. A. Kohut.

F. 14-15: Kohut's unpublished work entitled: 'Description of the Hebrew-Arabic Manuscripts at the Sutro Library San Francisco, California'.

Ff. 16-22: Herbert Loewe's abstract of his work on the history of the Jews in India (?), and an accompanying letter, which is incomplete.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 20th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 22 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 305 × 295 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation is irregular and incomplete.

Collation

Condition

Layout

Columns:1

Dimensions are the dimensions of the melinex folders.

Hand(s)

Ff. 14-15: Latin cursive script; rest of the folios are typewritten.

Binding

BL in-house, brown buckram.

Title on the front cover: 'Gaster-Kohut-Loewe Correspondence'.

History

Origin: 1926-1927 England

Provenance and Acquisition

Acquired around 1990.

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_14700 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Reiner, Fred N. Standing at Sinai: Sermons and Writings (Bloomington, IN.: AuthorHouse Publishing, 2011), p. 319 n12.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL