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Title

תורה (ויקרא-דברים) (Torah (Ṿa-yiḳra-Devarim))

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 9893
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9893
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy with Targum Onḳelos and Rashi's commentary

Notes

• Paper patched, fixed with silk gauze.
   
• Some leaves are on guards.
   
• Some lacunae supplied by a later hand on different paper (folios 1, 57, 58, 123, 124).
   

Extent

124 folios; 124 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

In-house, half-bound. Spine: 'Leviticus and Deuteronomy. Hebrew & Aramaic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 9893.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 40; written lines: 40; Number of lines differ from page to page. Pricking or ruling is not visible. Main text is punctuated, commentary in unpunctuated. The layout and the script are both influenced by printed books.

Script

Yemenite square and semi-cursive script of the 18th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 326: inscribed with his name (folios 1r, 2r, 123v); purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed (back flyleaf [i]v).
   

Related resources

• Catalogue of Hebrew Manuscripts in the Gaster Collection, the British Library, London (London: Hebrew Section. Oriental and India Office Collection, 1996).

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