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Title

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

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 9880
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9880
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

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

Notes

• Damaged by damp and mould.
   
• Large losses.
   
• Dark stains.
   
• Splits across text areas, edges with many splits.
   
• All repaired and inlaid before rebinding.
   

Extent

37 folios; 37 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Biblical Fragments. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Or. 9880.'

Layout

Columns: 3; ruled lines: 23; written lines: 23; Uniform layout. Complete ruling by hard-point visible. Traces of pricking on the outer margins only. Masorah magna and parva. Catchwords on every verso.

Script

Oriental square script, punctuated, of the last quarter of the 11th century or first quarter of the 12th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 150; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed, [38v].
   

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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