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Or 10427

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032-003437152
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Or 10427
Title:
Fragments in Judeo-Persian and Hebrew
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
9 fragments (in 7 sheets)
Digitised Content:
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10427 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Persian
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1500-1899
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
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 10427

Fragments in Judeo-Persian and Hebrew

Contents

A collection of 8 Judeo-Persian fragments and one Hebrew.

Language(s): Judeo-Persian, Hebrew

ff. 1r-9v
Title: Fragments

Fragment no. 4 is in Hebrew; f. 4r: exegetical work on Psalms? (Ps. 34); f. 4v: rabbinical extracts? (from Babylonian Talmud Rosh ha-Shanah 11a, etc.).

Colophon:

Physical Description

Paper codex approximately of the 16th-19th century.
Form: leaf
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 9 fragments (in 7 sheets)
Dimensions (leaf): 240 × 330 mm.
Foliation:

The fragments are numbered in pencil.

In the digital surrogate the folio numbers correspond to the melinex sheets (7 sheets) not the individual fragments.

Condition

Layout

Columns:1

Given dimensions are those of the melinex sheets.

Hand(s)

Persian Hebrew square and semi-cursive scripts.

Binding

In melinex sheets, in large blue postbinder.

History

Origin: 1500-1899 16th-19th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1281; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 11 January 1932.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and G. M. Meredith-Owens, Handlist of Persian Manuscripts 1895-1966 (London: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1968).

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10427 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Fihrist online catalogue (https://www.fihrist.org.uk/catalog/manuscript_5182)
    Meredith-Owens, G. M.,Handlist of Persian Manuscripts 1895-1966.(London: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1968), p. 43.

Funding of Cataloguing

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