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Or 5474

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032-003314076
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Or 5474
Title:
Collection of liturgical poems
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
95 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_5474 (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:
S. Raffalovich
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 5474

Collection of liturgical poems

Contents

A collection of liturgical poems.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-95v
Title: Piyuṭim
Title: פיוטים

Folio 95 contains the beginning of an alphabetical index of the piyuṭim collected in the volume, with indications of folios and pages. The opening wordsof several pieces that stodd in the missing nine folios at the beginning have thus been preserved.

Folios 87v-88v contain a poem in Arabic in Hebrew characters on the death of a woman martyr.

On folio 89r is a Hebrew love poem, written in a different hand.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 95 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 150 × 100 mm.
Dimensions (written): 130 × 83 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of mostly 16 leaves each.

Condition

Defective at the beginning and at the end.

A leaf missing after folio 5.

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 18 21

Written lines: 18 21

Uniform layout.

Ruled with mastara.

Larger initial words.

Occasional catchwords on folio versos.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive script of the 18th century.

ff. 86-95
contain notes in a different, probably later hand.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Religious Poetry. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 5474.'

History

Origin: 18th century ; Unknown

Provenance and Acquisition

S. Raffalovich: purchased by the British Museum from him 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_5474 (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. 1123.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL