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Or 9931

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Or 9931
Title:
Torah Commentary
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
183 folios (i++183+ii)
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Start Date:
1300
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1399
Date Range:
1300-1399
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CE
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Judah ben Samuel of Bamberg (Babenberg)
Rashi, 1040-1105
Rashi, 1040-1105
Samuel of Bamberg
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Or 9931

Torah Commentary

Contents

Commentary on the Pentateuch citing various authors.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-183v
Title: פרוש התורה
Title: Perush ha-Torah

Cites from Samuel of Bamberg (שמואל מבבנבערק, e.g. ff. 16r, 18r), Joseph ben Isaac Bekor Shor, of Orleans (יוסף דאורלייש, e.g. ff. 8r, 9r, 22r), Rashi (e.g. ff. 70v), Rabbi Isaac Poler (הר' יצחק פולערe.g. f. 121r), etc.

On f. 16r: שמעתי ממורי הר’ ידידי’ [מנירנברג] בשה"ר שמואל מבבנבערק. The compiler was probably the disciple the aforementioned Rabbi Judah ben Samuel of Bamberg (Babenberg).

Also on several Haftarot.

With marginal notes.

Incomplete at the beginning and end.

ff. 1r-30v
Title: Genesis
ff. 30v-80r
Title: Exodus
ff. 80r-107v
Title: Leviticus
ff. 107v-147r
Title: Numbers
ff. 147r-183v
Title: Numbers

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; watermark: bull's head with cross above the horns (e.g. ff. 176-177).
Extent: 183 folios (i++183+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 196 × 137 mm.
Dimensions (written): 135 × 80 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

24 quires: i-iii8 (ff. 1-8, 9-16, 17-24), iv6-1 (ff. 25-29), v-ix8 (ff. 30-37, 38-45, 46-53, 54-61, 62-69), x6 (ff. 70-75), xi8-1 (ff. 76-82), xii6-1 (ff. 83-87), xiii-xxiv8 (ff. 88-95, 96-103, 104-111, 112-119, 120-127, 128-135, 136-143, 144-151, 152-159, 160-167, 168-175, 176-183).

Catchword at the end of most quires.

Condition

F. 1 is detached.

Earlier repairs using manuscript waste (e.g. ff. 30r).

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 24 29

Ruling is visible (only outlines of text block).

Running title in sections.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi semi-cursive script of the 14th century.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house binding.

Title on spine: 'Commentary on Pentateuch. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 9931.'

History

Origin: 1300-1399 14th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Ownership inscription on f. 132v: זה הספר שייל ל... ר' חיים בר ... מגא...

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Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 730; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 24 November 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_9931 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    E Kanarfogel, Peering Through the Lattices: Mystical, Magical, and Pietistic Dimensions in the Tosafist Period (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2000), p. 105 n. 23.
    Ta-Shma, Israel M. Creativity and tradition: studies in medieval rabbinic scholarship, literature and thought (Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press, 2006), p. 61.
    E Kanarfogel, 'Midrashic Texts and Methods in Tosafist Torah Commentaries,' in Midrash Unbound: Transformations and Innovations, ed. Michael Fishbane and Joanna Weinberg (London: Littman Library, 2013), 267-319, esp. pp. 273 n. 21, 277 n30, 301 n102.

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