The Gaster Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts

Samaratian literature collected by Dr Gaster from Nablus including fine MSS of The Pentateuch; 350 Hebrew MSS drawn from Yemen and Morocco as well as Europe and Genizah fragments of discarded texts and documents of much importance to scholarship. Illustrated as plates III and IV of AR

Item date: 17th century onwards
Grant Value: 150
Item cost pre-decimal: 3500
Item date acquired: 1953
Item institution: John Rylands Library, University of Manchester
Town/City: Manchester
County: Lancashire