British Museum Reading-Room: Ticket Ticket for the British Museum Reading-Room for M. Gaster for access to the 'Manuscript Room'. The specific manuscript requested on the ticket was a 1595 fol. sized volume ('only vol. 2) of the Yalkut (written in Hebrew on the ticket) by Simeon Kara [a midrashic work more commonly known as the Yalkut Shimoni]. The work is listed as having originated in 'Cracau' and has the press mark '1954e.10'. On the back of the ticket are a set of rules for readers to follow. 22 Apr 1890