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Or 2589

Record Id:
032-003314032
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032-003314032
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Or 2589
Title:
Ḳinot (dirges)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
188 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2589 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1600-1699
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2589

Ḳinot (dirges)

Contents

Poems of lamentation for various occasions.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-187v
Title: Ḳinot
Title: קינות

Apparently intended for use by professional mourners.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 188 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 207/203 × 145/130 mm.
Dimensions (written): 180/150 × 120/95 mm.
Foliation:

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

Incomplete Hebrew foliation.

Collation

Leaves on guards.

Condition

Damp at all edges.

All folios individually guarded before rebinding, with lots of repairs/infills at edges.

Stained.

Many leaves missing.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 20 30

Written lines: 20 30

Non-uniform layout.

Catchowords on most of the versos.

Initials in larger square character in the latter part of the manuscript.

Marginal notes.

Sections marked in the margins.

Folio 1 is a title-page.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive scripts, partly punctuated, of the 17th century.

Additions:

Folios 2r-11r contain imperfect alphabetical indexes of the pieces included in the manuscript.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Kinoth. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Or. 2589.'

History

Origin: 17th century ; Unknown

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_2589 (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. 937.

Funding of Cataloguing

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