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Or 9883

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Or 9883
Title:
Yemenite Pentateuch
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
227 folios (ii+227+ii)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1400-1599
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
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Or 9883

Yemenite Pentateuch

Contents

A model copy of the Pentateuch, with Masoretic and other notes.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1v-227v
Title: תורה
Title: Torah

With numerous marginal notes by various hands concerning matters of Masorah (including comparison with printed versions), acronyms, explanations, etc.

Doodles in the margins of ff. 88v-89r.

The comments are signed by Yosef ha-Leṿi (ff. 178r, 202v), Mosheh ha-Leṿi (ff. 177v, 178r), Ovadyah ha-Levi (f. 115r), etc.

Without vocalisation and accents.

Some pages have been supplied later to complement the text: ff. 1, 122-123, and 221-227.

For its facsimile edition, see Gaster The Tittled Bible.

Colophon:
ff. 1v-58r
Title: Genesis
ff. 58v-106r
Title: Exodus
ff. 106v-140r
Title: Leviticus
ff. 140v-187r
Title: Deuteronomy
ff. 187v-227v
Title: Deuteronomy

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th-16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 227 folios (ii+227+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): × mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

F. 1r is blank.

Collation

Leaves on guards.

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

Usage stains, ink stains, liquid damage.

Damaged leaves, some fixed with silk gauze (e.g. f. 89).

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 24 25

Written lines: 25

Ruled with mastara?

Hand(s)

Yemenite square script of the 15th-16th century.

Decoration

Ink decoration in the outer margin marking the middle of the Pentateuch on f. 113v.

Geometrical decoration at the end of the books (ff. 58r, 106r, 140r).

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Title on spine: 'Pentateuch. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 9883.

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1400-1599 15th-16th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Fragment of a black oval stamp on f. 36r.

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 85; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 22 December 1928.

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_9883 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Gaster, Moses, The Tittled Bible: a model codex of the Pentateuch, reproduced in facsimile from MS. no. 85 of the Gaster collection now in the British Museum [BL MS Or. 9883] (London: Maggs Bros, 1929).

Funding of Cataloguing

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