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032-003367035
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Add MS 18830
Title:
Tehilim
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
122 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1300-1399
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Löwy, Albert (Abraham)
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 18830

Tehilim

Contents

The Psalms, with vowel-points and accents, masorah magna and parva.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-122v
Title: Tehilim
Title: תהילים

The Latin beginnings of the Psalms are written in the margin, showing that the manuscript was at an early period in the monastery use.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 122 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 142 × 170 mm.
Dimensions (written): 115 × 130 mm.
Foliation:

122 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 6 leaves each.

Catchwords trimmed away.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 11

Written lines: 11

Uniform layout.

The Latin beginnings of the Psalms marked in the margins.

Masorah magna occupies 1 line in the upper margin and up to 2 lines in the lower margin, sometimes written in an ornamental pattern.

Visible pricking and folio by folio ruling with a hard-point.

Hair side and flesh side of folios distinguishable.

Hand(s)

Fine Sefardi square script, punctuated, of the 14th century.

Additions:

Binding

BL in-house.

Spine: 'Psalterium. Hebrew. British Library. Additional 18830.'

History

Origin: 1300-1399 14th century Unknown

Provenance and Acquisition

Folio 120v: Psalterium istud est Monasterii Sancti Benedicti.

Monastery of Sancta Maria de angelis in Florence and of Sanct Benedict outside the walls in Florence, inscribed as owners of this psaltery in several Latin notes on folios 1v, 3r, 120v.

Folio 121v, records of birth, with a date of 5422 (1662).

1852-01-10

Löwy, Albert (Abraham) (b. 1816, d. 1908), Hebrew scholar and minister in the West London Synagogue of British Jews: purchased by the British Library from him on 10 January 1852: inscribed on folio [123v].

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=Add_MS_18830 (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. 155.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL