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Or 4221

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032-003372141
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Or 4221
Title:
Song of Songs scroll
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
2 membranes, 7 columns.
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_4221 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1400-1599
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
C.D. Ginsburg
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 4221

Song of Songs scroll

Contents

The Song of Songs.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-1r
Title: Shir ha-shirim
Title: שיר השירים

The reading of the masoreticקריhave been adopted in the text instead of theכתיב.

Physical Description

Leather scroll of the 15th to 16th century.
Form: scroll
Material: leather
Support:
Extent: 2 membranes, 7 columns.
Dimensions (leaf): 223 × 982 mm.

Collation

2 membranes.

Condition

Damp stains at edges.

Salt accretions.

Ink offset on verso from damp.

Layout

Columns:7

Ruled lines: 23

Written lines: 23

Uniform layout.

Ruling by hard point, membrane by membrane.

Visible stiching of membranes.

No tagin nor open sections. The closed sections: 2:1, 3:1, 4:1, 5:1, 6:1, 7:1.

No majuscular letters, apart from those of initial words.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square script of the 15th to 16th century.

Binding

BM in-house (boxed).

History

Origin: 1400-1599 15th-16th century Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

1891-02-17

Acquired by the British Museum from C.D. Ginsburg on 17 February 1891.

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_4221 (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. 44.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL