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Or 10556

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Or 10556
Title:
Hebrew-Persian glossary to the Bible
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
95 folios (i+95+ii)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10556 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Persian
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1600-1799
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Or 10556

Hebrew-Persian glossary to the Bible

Contents

Language(s): Judeo-Persian, Hebrew

ff. 1r-95v
Title: פרושי מלים במקרא בפרסית
Title: Perushe milim ba-Miḳra be-Farsit

Incomplete: from the end of Genesis to the beginning of Chronicles. The last ten leaves are too fragile to turn the pages.

ff. 1r-1v
Title: Genesis
ff. 1v-6r
Title: Exodus
ff. 6r-9r
Title: Leviticus
ff. 9r-12r
Title: Numbers
ff. 12r-17r
Title: Deuteronomy
ff. 17v-19r
Title: Song of Songs
ff. 19r-19v
Title: Ruth
ff. 19v-21r
Title: Lamentations
ff. 21r-22r
Title: Eclesiastes
ff. 22r-23r
Title: Esther
ff. 23r-24v
Title: Joshua
ff. 24v-27v
Title: Judges
ff. 27v-32r
Title: Samuel 1
f. 32r
Title: Kings 1
ff. 32r-35r
Title: Kings 2
ff. 35r-47v
Title: Isaiah
ff. 47v-54v
Title: Jeremiah
ff. 55r-60v
Title: Ezekiel
ff. 61r-62v
Title: Hosea
ff. 62v-63r
Title: Joel
ff. 63r-64r
Title: Amos
f. 64r
Title: Obadiah
ff. 64r-65r
Title: Jonah
ff. 65r-66r
Title: Nahum
ff. 66r-66v
Title: Habakkuk
ff. 66v-67r
Title: Zephaniah
f. 67r
Title: Haggai
f. 67r
Title: Zechariah
f. 67v
Title: Malachi
ff. 68r-80v
Title: Psalms
ff. 80v-85v
Title: Proverbs

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th-18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 95 folios (i+95+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 200 × 115 mm.
Dimensions (written): 170 × 80 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Back flyleaf (ii) is the original leather cover.

Collation

Condition

Very fragile, damaged lower margins due to water damage.

Usage stains, worm damage.

F. 95 is only a small fragment.

Earlier repairs.

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 21 24

Uniform layout.

Running title.

Chapter numbers in Hebrew characters in the outer margins.

Hand(s)

Persian Hebrew square script of the 17th-18th century; vocalised.

Additions:

F. 54v: note by a different hand.

Binding

Post-1600, black cloth binding. Boxed.

M. Gaster's label on spine: '774 אגדון עברי-פרסי -תנ"ך'.

History

Origin: 1600-1799 17th-18th century Persia?

Provenance and Acquisition

Ownership inscription on f. 17r: שלי הצעיר ... מזרח ... נ"ע.

Purchase note on f. 31v: מקנת כספי הצעיר ... יוסף ... בן יחזקאל נ"ע.

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 774; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 23 December 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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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10556 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Meredith-Owens, G. M., Handlist of Persian Manuscripts 1895-1966 (London: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1968), p.43.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL