Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Gaster Hebrew MS 323
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- Manchester Digital Collections
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- The John Rylands Library
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- Gaster Hebrew MS 323
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- Language
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- Hebrew
- Aramaic
- Judeo-Arabic
- Title
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- Pentateuch (חומש)
- Targum Onkelos (תרגום אונקלוס)
- Tafsir (תפסיר)
- Rashi's Bible commentary (פרוש רש"י)
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- Agent
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- Role
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- Scribe
- Original form
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- Ibn Hayyim
- ן’ חיים
- Ibn Ḥayyim
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- Patron
- Original form
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- Salam Said
- סאלם סעיד
- Salam Sa‛id
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- Onkelos (0...-01..)
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- Author
- Original form
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- Onkelos
- אונקלוס
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- Preferred form
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- Saadiah ben Yosef (gaon, 0882-0942)
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- Author
- Original form
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- Sa'adia ben Joseph, 882-942
- Sa'adia Gaon
- סעדיה בן יוסף, אלפיומי, 882-942
- Other form
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- Saʿadyah ben Ywsep (0882-0942 ; gaʾwn)
- Saʿīd ibn Yūsuf al-Fayyūmī
- Saadia Gaon
- Saadiah ben Yosef (Gaon ; 0882-0942)
- סעדיה בן יוסף אלפיומי
- סעדיה בן יוסף, אלפיומי
- Saadiah ben Yosef
- Saʻadia ben Joseph
- Seʿadyah, Gaʾon
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- Salomon ben Isaac (1040-1105)
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- Author
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- Rashi, 1040-1105
- Rashi
- שלמה בן יצחק (רש"י), 1040-1105
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- Šlomoh ben Yiṣḥaq (1040-1105)
- Salomon ben Isaac (1040-1105)
- Salomon de Troyes
- Rachi
- שלמה בן יצחק (רש"י), 1040-1105
- שלמה בן יצחק
- Salomon en Isaace Troyes
- Salomon ben Isaac
- Shelomoh ben Yitsḥaḳ
- Ben Isaac, Salomão, 1040-1105 > , coment.
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- Moses Gaster (1856-1939)
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- Former owner
- Original form
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- Moses Gaster
- Gaster, Moses 1856-1939
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- Description
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- Extent:
174 ff. (i+174+i) Leaf height: 320 mm, width: 205 mm.
Binding:
Original binding in brown leather with blind-tooling decorations on boards. Remains of leather strips attached to boards for fastening. Modern repairs to the corners.
Decoration:
Decorations in the margin to mark the beginning of the next parashah and usually also Rashi's commentary on that parashah on folios 8b, 14a, 19b, 23b, 28b, 33b, 38a, 45a, 48b, 60b, 68a, 75b/76a, 82a, 88a, 93b, 99b, 107a, 113b, 124b, 131b, 138a, 146a, 151b, 158a, 164b, 167a, 169a, 172a.
Decoration of the beginning of the books of Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy on respectively folios 1b, 53b and 118a.
Acquisition:
Acquired by The John Rylands Library from the heirs of Moses Gaster in 1954.
Layout:
The main text consisting of Bible, Targum and Tafsir is in two columns with between 21 and 27 written lines.
Rashi's Bible commentary is placed in the bottom part of the page and written in two columns of usually between 9 and 12 lines.
Collation:
Catchword in the bottom left corner of the recto and verso of each page relating to the text of Rashi. Whenever there is only one column with Rashi text, an extra catchword relating to the long Bible column is sometimes added.
Script:
Yemenite square script of varying sizes according to the importance of the text.
Data Source(s):
Description based on Alexander Samely's unpublished draft catalogue, revised and expanded by Stefania Silvestri and Renate Smithuis.
Subject(s):
Bible. Old Testament--Versions, Jewish; Bible Commentaries; Piyutim
Abstract:
Trilingual Bible in Hebrew, Aramaic (Targum Onkelos) and Judeo-Arabic (Sa'adia Gaon's Tafsir) containing the last three books of the Pentateuch (Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy) accompanied by Rashi's commentary and, on most pages, by extensive paratext. The various languages alternate verse by verse. Only the Hebrew and Aramaic passages are vocalised with Tiberian and Babylonian (supralinear) vocalisation respectively. The paratext includes quotations from the Bible commentary of the Ba'al ha-Turim. The full contents of the paratext remain to be established. Folio 1a contains a liturgical poem. The texts are a continuation of Gaster Hebrew MS 322.
Foliation:
Modern pencil foliation in Arabic numerals at the top outer corner of side a of each folio.
Format:
Codex
Material:
Paper. Front and back fly-leaf with watermark and counter-watermark: folio i De Mo[...] Vittorio and folio ii crescent moon with face in shield. Folios 145 and 152 appear to be different, in pulp and size.
Provenance:
Handwritten label on spine reading in 3 lines in Hebrew: "ויקרא דברים / תימן ".
Folio ia: Handwritten in black ink "No. 2 / M. Gaster / 323".
Folio 1a: Handwritten in black ink "M. Gaster / 323 "and number 2 added in blue crayon.
Signature of Moses Gaster on folios ia and 1a in black ink.
Condition:
Water damage particularly visible on the side of the folios. Several folios have been repaired with modern paper (i.e. folios 1-3, 21, 29, 36, 38-40, 43, 59, 60, 83, 99, 100, 105, 119, 123-126, 130, 143-150, 154, 156-158, 161-162, 164-168, 174). On folio 145a the repair paper containes some Hebrew printed letters.
Additions:
Folio 1a: liturgical poem added by a different hand. Incipit: "[...] לבי פתח בתורתך".Folios 29a and 119a: on the repair paper a different hand has added some missing text.
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