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Or 12983

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Or 12983
Title:
Pereḳ shirah
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
16 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1750
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1750-1899
Era:
CE
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Or 12983

Pereḳ shirah

Contents

A midrashic commentary.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-16v
Title: Pereḳ shirah
Title: פרק שירה

With a Yiddish translation.

f. 1r, 4v, 5v, 8v, 12v 5 panels with illustrations, in colours.

References

[Schonfield_1996]

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 18th to 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 16 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 130 × 85 mm.
Dimensions (written): 100 × 60 mm.
Foliation:

16 folios (+ 1 unfoliated modern paper flyleaf at the beginning and 2 at the end).

Collation

4 quires of 4 leaves each.

Condition

Light tidemarks at head.

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 14 26

Written lines: 14 26

Uniform layout.

Larger square titles and initial words.

Visible hard-point ruling.

Hair side and flesh side of folios distinguishable.

Gilt edges.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square script of the 18th to 19th century.

Binding

Post 1600. Tooled parchment boards, once coloured or varnished, with remains of color traces. Boxed.

Spine: 'Perek Shirah. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental Ms. 12,983.'

History

Origin: ; Germany

Provenance and Acquisition

1965

Acquired by the British Library in 1965 at Christie’ssale.

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_12983 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

Bibliography

    [Schonfield_1996] Schonfield J ed. 'Perek Shirah. Facs. and Companion Set'. London Facsimilie Editions Limited 1996, 1996.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL