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Or 5400

Record Id:
032-003314064
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Or 5400
Title:
Collection of liturgical poems
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
142 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_5400 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1500-1699
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
S. Raffalovich
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 5400

Collection of liturgical poems

Contents

Hebrew religious poetry.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-142v
Title: Piyutim
Title: פיוטים

A collection of liturgical poems.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th to 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 142 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 160 × 110 mm.
Dimensions (written): 125 × 75 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

Condition

Tidemarks and dark stains throughout.

Usage stains and mould-spotting.

Ink mostly dark and haloing.

Some leaves fully laminated. Infills and patches.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 16

Written lines: 16

Uniform layout.

Catchwords on every page.

Ruled with mastara.

Larger square initial words.

Hebrew foliation added by a later hand.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive and square scripts of the 16th to 17th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Piyyutim. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 5400.'

History

Origin: 16th-17th century

Provenance and Acquisition

1898-07-12

Purchased by the British Museum on 12 July 1898 from S. Raffalovich: inscribed, back flyleaf (i)v.

Record Sources

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

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_5400 (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 (supplement)

Funding of Cataloguing

BL