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Or 10632

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032-003436459
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Or 10632
Title:
Dictionary of Talmud and Midrash
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
173 folios (vii+173+v)
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Hebrew
Yiddish
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1700-1899
Era:
CE
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Or 10632

Dictionary of Talmud and Midrash

Contents

Language(s): Hebrew, Yiddish

ff. 1r-173v
Title: מלון לתלמוד ולמדרשים
Title: Milon la-Talmud ṿela-midrashim

Incomplete at the beginning.

The entries in each letter are sorted according to Midrash, Mishnah and Gemara. At the end of each letter are hashmatot (ommisions).

Several words are with a Yiddish translation.

Diagrams e.g. on ff. 40r, 172v.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th-19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Various types of paper, some with some without laid lines and chain lines.
Extent: 173 folios (vii+173+v)
Dimensions (leaf): 208 × 163 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Condition

Water damage, mould, usage stains, dirt.

Leaf edges are fragile, torn.

Layout

Columns:2 3

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi cursive scipt of the 18th-19th century.

Binding

Post-1600, brown covers, black cloth spine. White ribbon marker. Boxed.

M. Gaster's label on spine: '685 אוצר מלי... (ערוך חדש)'.

History

Origin: 1700-1899 18th-19th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 685; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 8 October 1929.

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 Oriental and India Office Collection, 1996) (unpublished copy is available in the AAS reading room).

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