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Add MS 20747

Record Id:
032-003371870
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032-003371870
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Add MS 20747
Title:
Collection of piyuṭim
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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032-003371870
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
39 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:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Adolphus Asher
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 20747

Collection of piyuṭim

Contents

Part of a collection of piyuṭim belonging to the Sefardi rite.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-39v
Title: Piyuṭim
Title: פיוטים

The enumeration of pieces seems to be inconsistent. There are various corrections in the margin. Of several pieces only parts are given.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the first half of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 39 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 105 × 145 mm.
Dimensions (written): 65 × 85 mm.
Foliation:

39 folios (+ 7 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 8 at the end).

Collation

Quires of 8 leaves each, marked with catchwords at the end.

Condition

Leaves missing after folio 32.

Defective at the beginning and at the end.

Stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 10

Written lines: 10

Uniform layout.

Initial words written in larger characters.

Hair side and flesh side of the folios distinguishable.

Sections numbered in the outer margin (see e.g. folio 14r).

Hand(s)

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

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Fragment of a Collection of Piyyutim. Hebrew & Aramaic. Brit. Mus. Additional MS. 20,747.'

History

Origin: 1300-1399 14th century Unknown

Provenance and Acquisition

Adolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum (see Paisey, D., 'Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi' British Library Journal 12 (1997), pp. 131-153): purchased by the British Museum from him on 24 May 1852: inscribed, folio [40v].

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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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_20747 (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. 695.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL