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Record Id:
032-003371888
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Add MS 26883
Title:
Tefilot ῾al derekh ha-ḳabalah
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
7 membranes.
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
M. Heidenheim
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 26883

Tefilot ῾al derekh ha-ḳabalah

Contents

Kabbalistic prayers.

Language(s): Hebrew

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Title: Tefilot ῾al derekh ha-ḳabalah
Title: תפלות על דרך הקבלה

Prayers for various occasions. Some Psalms are embodied.

Physical Description

Parchment roll of the 15th century.
Form: roll
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 7 membranes.
Dimensions (leaf): 108/270 × 3200 mm.

Collation

7 membranes, with wooden roller and header (137mm long).

Condition

Edges very dark, a few tears at outer end.

Severe creasing at inner end.

Liquid (glue) and ink stains on verso.

Ink with some losses to abrasion or flaking, first few lines illegible.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 300

Written lines: 300

Uniform layout.

Ruling by hard point.

Visible pricking and stiching.

Larger initial words.

Partly vocalised.

One column written from top to bottom of the scroll.

Wooden roller (270mm high).

Hand(s)

Italian Hebrew square script of the 15th century.

Binding

BM in-house. Boxed.

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Dr M. Heidenheim: purchased from him by the British Museum on 23 September 1865: inscribed on verso.

1865-09-23

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_26883 (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. 640.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL