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Add Ch 1250

Record Id:
032-003313944
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032-003313944
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Add Ch 1250
Title:
Charter
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
1 folio
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Languages:
Hebrew
Latin
Scripts:
Hebrew
Latin
Start Date:
1182
End Date:
1182
Date Range:
1182
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
C.P. Cooper, Esq.
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add Ch 1250

Charter

Contents

Latin deed with Hebrew acknowledgment

Language(s): Latin, Hebrew

ff. 1r-1v
Title: Latin deed with a Hebrew acknowledgment

Acknowledgment, written on the back of a Latin charter, of a receipt of £10 out of the Barton claim and declaration that half has been been received on behalf of Isaac ben Joseph. Signed by Berachiah ben Elijah.

The Latin deed is the acquittance by Aaron, the Jew of Lincoln and Benedict Grossus son of Pucella, to the men of Barton [Barton-upon Humber, c. Lincoln], for £10 10s paid at Michaelmas after the death of Roger [de Pont l'Evêque], Archbishop of York [ob. 26 November 1181].

Physical Description

Parchment of the 12th century.
Form: leaf
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 1 folio
Dimensions (leaf): 60 × 125 mm.

Collation

1 parchment piece.

Condition

Cut along an old fold.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 4

Written lines: 4

A small piece of parchment.

The Hebrew text written on the verso of a Latin charter.

Hand(s)

Hebrew Ashkenazi semi-cursive script of the 12th century.

History

Origin: (Michaelmas 143 = 4943 AM). ; England (Lincoln?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Presented to the British Museum by C.P. Cooper, Esq. in 1835.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965 and Olszowy-Schlanger, Judith. Hebrew and Hebrew-Latin Documents from Medieval England: a diplomatic and Palaeographical Study. Turnhout: Brill, 2015.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_Ch_1250 (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. 1201.
    Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition (London, Catalogue of Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition,1887), p. 183.
    Olszowy-Schlanger, Judith. Hebrew and Hebrew-Latin Documents from Medieval England: A Diplomatic and Palaeographical Study. Monumenta Palaeographica Medii Aevi. Series Hebraica (Turnhout: Brepols, 2015), no. 183.

Funding of Cataloguing

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