COLLECTION NAME:
Hebraica Collection
Record
Image Number:
Bookreader Gaster 2092
Reference Number:
Gaster MS 2092
Translated Image Title:
Book which is called dream book, containing the interpretation of dreams in alphabetical order
Parent Work Title:
Dreambook
Date Created:
after 1830
Description:
Book for the interpretation of dreams. Seventeen leaves with text, and four flyleaves. The two outer flyleaves are brown paper, the inner flyleaves are blue paper. Foliated. The title page, in Russian, identifies the work as 'book which is called dream book, containing the interpretation of dreams in alphabetical order'. The table of contents (ff. 2r-v) is in Romanian. The main text (ff. 3r-17v) is in Russian, with notes in the inner and outer margins in Romanian. Cleminson describes the hand as 'late Balkan cursive'. Letters from the church Slavonic alphabet are combined with letters introduced as part of the graždanka alphabet in 1707. Each letter is followed by a list of items and topics with a brief explanation of what they would mean if featured in a dream. Gaster's signature can be found three times (ff. 1, 10 and 15). According to a note in blue pen (f. 17v) Gaster acquired the manuscript on 26 March 1884. A note in pencil on the first flyleaf reads: 'Dreambook, probably 17th Century'. However, there is a watermark, Kronstadt 1830.
Language Code:
rum
Language Code:
rus
Subject:
Dreams
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Codex
Technique Used:
Handwriting
Medium:
Ink
Medium:
Ink
Item Height:
215 mm
Item Width:
165 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance:
Gaster, Moses, 1856-1939, former owner
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights:
References:
Cleminson, Ralph. A Union Catalogue of Cyrillic Manuscripts in British and Irish Collections, The Anne Pennington Catalogue, (General Editors Veronica Du Feu and W. F. Ryan, London: University of London, 1988), 199-215. Haralambakis, M. 'A Survey of the Gaster Collection in the John Rylands Library', Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 89:2 (2013): 10730.
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2012-04
Metadata Language:
eng-GB