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032-003312299
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Add MS 5242
Title:
Polyglot Bible
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
20 folios
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Languages:
Arabic
Coptic
French
Geez
German
Greek, Modern
Hebrew
Italian
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Latin
Persian
Spanish
Syriac, Classical
Scripts:
Arabic
Coptic
Ethiopic (ge'ez)
Greek
Hebrew
Latin
Syriac
Start Date:
1665
End Date:
1665
Date Range:
1665
Era:
CE
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Names:
Henry Aldrich
Sir Hans Sloane
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 5242

Polyglot Bible

Contents

Polyglot Bible and fragments of liturgical texts.

Language(s): Hebrew, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, syc-Syrc, Jewish Babalonia Aramaic, Arabic, Persian, gez-Ethi, Coptic, Spanish, Italian, French, German

ff. 1r-20v
Title: Polyglot
Title: פוליגלוט

The title-page constists of an ornamental design with the title in the centre.

The manuscript contains biblical and liturgical pieces, respectively written in the following languages: Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Syriac, Aramaic, Ethiopic, Arabic, Persian, Coptic, Spanish, Italian, French and German, in the following order: 1. Formula Orandi, 2. Fidei Confessio, 3. The Ten Commandments, 4. Canticum B. Virginis, 5. Canticum Zachariae, 6. Canticum Simeonis, 7. Institutio Baptismatis, 8. Institutio Eucharistiae.

The Latin, Greek, Syriac, Arabic, Ethiopic, and Persian of the biblical passages are taken from the Walton's SS. Biblia Polyglotta (London, 1657). Under the Coptic version of the Lord's Prayer is written: "Ex Celeberrimi Viri Athanasii Kircheri Prodromo Copto."

18 ful-page illustrations of biblical text, in brown ink and colors. f. 1v, 2v, 3v, 4v, 5v, 6v, 7v, 9v, 10v, 11v, 12v, 13v, 14v, 15v, 16v, 17v, 18v

1 unfinished coat of arms, ink and pencil. f. 20r

f. 1r decorated title-page within an arch, in black and brown ink.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 20 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 435 × 275 mm.
Dimensions (written): 330 × 270 mm.
Foliation:

20 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 1 at the end).

Collation

Quires of 10 leaves.

Condition

Usage stains.

Infilled at corners and edges.

Burn-through of ink on most heavily inked parts of text.

Layout

Columns:1 4

Ruled lines: 8 45

Written lines: 8 45

Non-uniform layout.

Page divided into mostly 4 columns, with various number of lines a page.

Hand(s)

Various scripts of the 17th century. Perhaps written by the first owner, Henry Aldrich (see folio 1r).

Additions:

Folios 21v-25v: calculations, drawings and scribblings.

Folio 25v: a paste-down with a Latin description of the manuscript.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Polyglotta. Brit. Mus. Additional 5242.'

History

Origin: ; England (Westminster)

Provenance and Acquisition

Henry Aldrich: (b. 1647, d. 1710), an English theologian and philosopher: inscribed with a date 1665 as "Henrichus Alrichus me-Angliya", folio 1r.

1753

Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector; purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753.

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=Add_MS_5242 (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. 1052.

Funding of Cataloguing

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