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Or 5435

Record Id:
032-003314069
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Or 5435
Title:
Liturgical fragment
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
1 folio
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_5435 (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 5435

Liturgical fragment

Contents

A liturgical fragment.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-1v
Title: Piyuṭim u-tefilot le-Purim
Title: פיוטים ותפלות לפורים

Two piyutim, benedictions, etc., for the Purim ritual.

Physical Description

A parchment leaf of the 16th or 17th century.
Form: leaf
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 1 folio
Dimensions (leaf): 460 × 195 mm.
Dimensions (written): 380 × 170 mm.
Foliation:

1 folio.

Collation

A single strip of parchment.

Condition

Thick, stiff vellum becoming translucent.

Manufacturing holes and small edge losses, possibly rodent.

A few breaks and tears along foot.

Darkening at edges.

Layout

Columns:3

Ruled lines: 20 14

Written lines: 20 14

Uniform layout.

Visible hard-point ruling.

Large initials.

Hand(s)

Byzantine square script of the 16th to 17th century.

Binding

BM in-house. Boxed.

Spine: 'Purim Ritual. Vellum Scroll. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Or. 5435.'

History

Origin: 16th-17th century ; Balkan Peninsula?

Provenance and Acquisition

S. Raffalovich: purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 July 1898.

1898-07-12

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_5435 (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. 1116.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL