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Or 5470

Record Id:
032-003314073
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Or 5470
Title:
Collection of liturgical poems
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
101 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_5470 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1700-1899
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
S. Raffalovich
Shelomoh Eli῾ezer ben Yitsḥaḳ Eli῾ezer
Ḥizḳiyah Avraham ben Shelomoh Eli῾ezer
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 5470

Collection of liturgical poems

Contents

Religious poetry.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-101v
Title: Piyuṭim
Title: פיוטים

A collection of piyuṭim, interspersed in a few places with some pieces in Spanish written in Hebrew character (folios 45r-48v, 70v-71r, etc.), as well as a few Hebrew love songs and some notes in prose. Folios 98r-101v contain portions of an alphabetical index to the poetical pieces contained in the original manuscript.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th to 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 101 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 140 × 100 mm.
Dimensions (written): 130 × 90 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Leaves on guards.

Condition

Damaged by damp.

Stained.

Wormed at ends.

Repaired and infilled, partially laminated. All edges guarded before rebinding.

Degrading ink.

Folios 100 and 101 mutilated.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 25

Written lines: 25

Non-uniform layout.

Original foliation.

Some pages left blank.

Lacunae after folios 10, 11, and other places.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive script of the 18th to 19th century.

Additions:

The leaf marked 1*** is a fragment cut out from folio 16 of the editio princeps of bYevamot (Venice, 1522).

Some other leaves prefixed to the original manuscript contain poetical compositions, currently mostly illegible.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Religious Poetry. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 5470.'

History

Origin: 18th-19th century ; Spain?

Provenance and Acquisition

Shelomoh Eli῾ezer ben Yitsḥaḳ Eli῾ezer: inscribed, folio 4r.

Ḥizḳiyah Avraham ben Shelomoh Eli῾ezer: inscribed, folio 5r.

S. Raffalovich: purchased by the British Museum on 13 December 1898: 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.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_5470 (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. 531.
    Tahan, Ilana, 'Judeo-Spanish Manuscripts in the British Library's Hebrew Collection', European Judaism: A Journal for the New Europe43, No. 2, The State of Ladino Studies I (2010), pp. 134-152, esp. p. 140.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL