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Or 4863

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032-003312263
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Or 4863
Title:
Commentary on the Book of Psalms
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
136 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_4863 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1700-1799
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
J.L. Hirschensohn
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 4863

Commentary on the Book of Psalms

Contents

Commentary on Psalms.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-136v
Title: Zeh shemi
Title: וזה שמי

A collection of commentaries on Psalms which begin with the letter vav. Missing 29 folios at the beginning of the manuscript.

Filiation: Uniform with Or 4862.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 136 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 335 × 205 mm.
Dimensions (written): 220 × 130 mm.
Foliation:

136 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 1 at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 to 10 leaves each.

Condition

Slight tidemarks at edges.

Some infills at corners and edges.

Dirt entry at cockled head.

Usage stains, dirty fingerprints, smeared ink.

Ink mostly brown, haloing with some burn-through.

Leather binding slightly rubbed at corners and edges, damaged endcaps .

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 28

Written lines: 28

Uniform layout.

Visible hard-point ruling.

Original Hebrew foliation.

Initial words and chapter titles in larger square characters.

Page by page catchwords.

Marginal additions and notes.

Hand(s)

Oriental cursive script of the 18th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Notes on the Psalms. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Or. 4863.'

History

Origin: 18th century ; Former Ottoman Empire

Provenance and Acquisition

1895-02-11

J.L. Hirschensohn: purchased from him by the British Museum on 11 February 1895: inscribed, flyleaf [ii]v.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_4863 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), no. 154., vol. IV.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL