Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Gaster Hebrew MS Add 1
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- Manchester Digital Collections
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- The John Rylands Library
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- Gaster Hebrew MS Add 1
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- Language
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- Hebrew
- Aramaic
- Title
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- Title page
- שיר השירים (Song of Songs)
- רות (Ruth)
- קהלת (Ecclesiastes | Qohelet)
- תרגום על שיר השירים (Targum Song of Songs)
- תרגום על רות (Targum Ruth)
- תרגום על קהלת (Targum Ecclesiastes)
- פרוש רש"י (Rashi's Commentary)
- נחל אשכול (Nahal Eshkol)
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- Agent
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- Role
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- Scribe
- Original form
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- Suleiman [...] Ibn Yuda [...]
- [...] סלימאן [...] ן' יודא
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- Salomon ben Isaac (1040-1105)
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- Author
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- Rashi, 1040-1105
- שלמה בן יצחק (רש"י), 1040-1105
- Rashi
- Other form
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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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- Preferred form
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- Hayyim Joseph David Azulaï (1724-1806)
- Role
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- Author
- Original form
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- Azulaï, Hayyîm Joseph David, 1724-1806
- אזולאי, חיים יוסף דוד, 1724-1806
- Hayyim Joseph David Azulai
- Biblissima authority file
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- Preferred form
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- W. A. Howitt
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- Other
- Original form
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- Howitt, W.A.
- W.A. Howitt
- Biblissima authority file
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- Role
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- Former owner
- Original form
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- Mahmud
- מחמוד
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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:
51 ff. (i+51+i) Leaf height: 234 mm, width: 163 mm.
Binding:
Brown leather binding with blind tooled decoration on boards with two double-lined frames and diagonal lines. Broken leather ties. Traces of 3 decorative ornamental appliques, now absent, on both boards.
Decoration:
Marginal decoration
Folio ia: Title page with gate drawing. Its borders are filled with grape motifs. The letters of the title, in black ink, are either surrounded with red ink lines or have a red line on top. As fillers there are six red and black ink floral motifs.
Several words throughout the manuscript, such as initial words, headings, titles and masoretic notes, have a red ink line, small snake or crown-like decoration above them.
Folio ib: Fleur de lys in black and red ink.
Initials
Folios 1a, 18a and 26a: Two initial-words on panels bordered by a frame filled with red grape motifs and red ink lines.
Acquisition:
Acquired by The John Rylands Library from the heirs of Moses Gaster in 1954.
Layout:
The layout is composite: the main biblical text is written in one column on the outer top side of the page, surrounded on the internal margin and at the bottom by the Aramaic Targum. In the bottom half of the page is Rashi's commentary, usually accompanied by the Nahal Eshkol commentary. The latter tends to be in the internal column.
Collation:
Catchwords on every page for most, if not all, texts.
Script:
Yemenite semi-cursive script, larger for the Aramaic Targum.Yemenite square script for the biblical text.
Data Source(s):
Description based on Alexander Samely's unpublished draft catalogue, description of decorations by Gabrielle Sed-Rajna, revised and expanded by Stefania Silvestri, Renate Smithuis and Nienke Valk.
Subject(s):
Bible. Old Testament--Versions, Jewish; Bible. Five Scrolls; Bible. Ruth; Bible. Song of Solomon; Bible. Ecclesiastes; Bible. Old Testament. Aramaic; Rashi, 1040-1105; Bible Commentaries
Abstract:
Nineteenth-century Yemenite manuscript with the text of the three Megillot (Scrolls) Song of Songs, Ruth and Ecclesiastes accompanied with minimal Massorah, the Targum, Rashi's commentary and excerpts from the commentary Nahal Eshkol by Hayyim Joseph David Azulai.
Foliation:
Modern pencil foliation in Arabic numerals at the top outer corner of side a of each folio, starting on folio 2 and continuing to 51. Missing foliation on title page (folio ia), folio 1 and the last folio (folio iia).
Format:
Codex
Material:
Paper with watermarks: coat of arms with crescent and letters A C[?].
Provenance:
Paper label on spine with 1814 handwritten in ink.
Front paste-down: Handwritten note reading in English: " 30.10.1923 / Presented to me by W.A. Howitt/ M.G.".
Front paste-down: Handwritten notes in pencil reading "1599", "Levy of sale", "[...], MSS 397 / Solomon's Song / of Songs / with a Commentary", "1851" and in blue ink "〚1814〛".
Folio 1a: Signature of Moses Gaster and handwritten note in pencil reading "Yemen / 16th cent".
Folio 50b: Signature of Moses Gaster.
Folio 51a: Handwritten in pencil number 5054.
Folio iib: Handwritten Hebrew alphabet, upside down.
Back paste-down: Handwritten ownership note in Hebrew, including the name Mahmud.
Condition:
Binding detaching from spine and sewing partly visible. Folio 13 detached.
Additions:
Marginal notes in different hands: folios ia, 3a, 4a, 9a, 11a, 13a-b, 17a, 19a, 21a, 31a-b, 34a, 43b, 45a-b.
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