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Or 5471

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032-003314074
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Or 5471
Title:
Collection of hymns
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
100 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_5471 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1700-1799
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Najara, Israel ben Moses, 1555-1625
Najara, Israel ben Moses, 1555-1625
S. Raffalovich
Shemu᾿el Ḳaśṭil
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 5471

Collection of hymns

Contents

Religious poetry.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-100v
Title: Piyuṭim
Title: פיוטים

A collection of hymns, in great part composed by Israel Najara. The pieces are arranged under the headings of Turkish tunes, to which they were to be sung.

Each of the sections whose beginning has been preserved opens with a piece entitled 'petiḥah'.

Author: Najara, Israel ben Moses נג'רה, ישראל בן משה

3 half-borders with geometric decoration, in colours. f. 22r, 38r, 76r

f. 83r 1 inhabited half-border, in colours.

1 pen and ink drawing, in black. f. 93v

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 100 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 160 × 105 mm.
Dimensions (written): 130 × 85 mm.
Foliation:

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

Original Hebrew foliation.

Collation

Leaves on guards.

Condition

Damp/mould damage, repaired/infilled.

Some leaves laminated, all edges guarded before rebinding.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 10 20

Written lines: 10 20

Uniform layout.

Some pages left blank.

Larger square initials.

Running titles.

Leaf catchwords.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive and square script of the 18th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Israel Nagara. Poems. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 5471.'

History

Origin: 18th century ; Iraq?

Provenance and Acquisition

Shemu᾿el Ḳaśṭil: inscribed, folio 83r.

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_5471 (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. 1121.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL