Description of British Library, Or 9880: Biblical fragments ('Second Gaster Bible') with masorah magna and parva .contributorIlana TahancatalogerAgata PaluchThe Polonsky FoundationBritish Library2023-01-312023-01-31These images and the content of British Library Or 9880: Biblical fragments ('Second Gaster Bible') with masorah magna and parva . are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.To the extent possible under law, British Library has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about British Library Or 9880: Biblical fragments ('Second Gaster Bible') with masorah magna and parva .. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.Damaged by damp and mould.Large losses.Dark stains.Splits across text areas, edges with many splits.All repaired and inlaid before rebinding.Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.United KingdomLondonBritish LibraryHebrew Manuscripts Digitisation ProjectOr 9880http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9880https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscriptsBiblical fragments ('Second Gaster Bible') with masorah magna and parva .HebrewBiblical fragments ('Second Gaster Bible') with masorah magna and parva .
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37 folios; 37 folios 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.Oriental square script, punctuated, of the last quarter of the 11th century or first quarter of the 12th century.
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].