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

Title

Targumic paraphrase to the Song of Songs accompanied with an Arabic translation

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 9912
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9912
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Judeo-Arabic

Origin

Summary

Targumic paraphrase to the Song of Songs accompanied with an Arabic translation

Notes

• Uniform layout.
   
• Slight water damage.
   
• Scribbles on the first and last pages (folios 1r and 41v).
   

Extent

41 folios; 41 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Brit. Mus. Or. 9912. Song of Songs. Aramaic & Arabic.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: ; written lines: ; Pencil ruling (frames only). Running title in the upper margins.

Script

Yemenite square script of the 19th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 753: inscribed with his name (folio 1r); 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).

Licenses

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