Collection ID: 0047 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Biblical fragments ('First Gaster Bible') with masorah magna and parva .

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 9879
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9879
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

Biblical fragments ('First Gaster Bible') with masorah magna and parva .

Notes

• Extremely damaged by damp, all repaired, inlaid and guarded before rebinding.
   
• A few old repairs slightly obscure text.
   

Extent

40 folios; 40 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Biblical Fragments. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Or. 9879.'

Layout

Columns: 1 2; ruled lines: 18; written lines: 18; Uniform layout. Complete ruling by hard-point visible. Traces of pricking on the outer margins only. Masorah magna and parva.

Script

Oriental square script, punctuated, of the 10th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 151; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed, [42v].
   

Related resources

• Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

Licenses

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