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Record Id:
032-003371848
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Add MS 19342
Title:
Psalms
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
12 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Coptic
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1700-1799
Era:
CE
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Add MS 19342

Psalms

Contents

A fragment of the Psalms in Hebrew, but written in Ethiopic characters.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-12v
Title: Psalms
Title: תהילים

Psalms 1-11:4, 51, 121, 123, 130, 140.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 12 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 101 × 71 mm.
Dimensions (written): 75 × 45 mm.
Foliation:

12 folios (+ 4 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 12 at the end).

Collation

Parts of two quires.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 19 32

Written lines: 19 32

Irregular layout.

Hand(s)

Ethiopic script of the 18th century.

Additions:

Folio 11r contains the Arabic alphabet with Ethiopic equivalents.

Folios 11v-12r contain a list of church furniture in an Italian hand of the 18th century.

Binding

Post-1600. Brown leather, blind tooled.

Spine: '19342. Mus. Brit. CCXVIII A. Iure Empt.'

History

Origin: 1700-1799 18th century Ethiopia

Provenance and Acquisition

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_19342 (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. 158.
    [Wright_1877] 127

Bibliography

    [Wright_1877] British Museum. Department of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts. 'Catalogue of the Ethiopic Manuscripts in the British Museum Acquired since the Year 1847. By W. Wright.'London, 1877.

Funding of Cataloguing

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