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Or 4223

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032-003372143
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Or 4223
Title:
Lamentations scroll
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
2 membranes, 9 columns.
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_4223 (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:
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Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
C.D. Ginsburg
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 4223

Lamentations scroll

Contents

The Book of Lamentations.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-1r
Title: Ekhah
Title: איכה

The readings of the masoretic קרי are in almost all cases followed in the text, instead of כתיב.

The 20th verse of chapter 5 is repeated at the end, though the siman יתק"ק is not given.

Physical Description

Leather scroll of the 15th to 16th century.
Form: scroll
Material: leather
Support:
Extent: 2 membranes, 9 columns.
Dimensions (leaf): 280 × 1140 mm.

Collation

2 membranes.

Condition

Surface disturbed by erasure.

Darkening edges and a few text areas.

Ink offset to verso from rolling (possible damp).

Layout

Columns:9

Ruled lines: 24

Written lines: 24

Uniform layout.

Ruling by hard point, membrane by membrane.

Visible pricking.

No tagin on שעטנזגץ. The letter ח is frequently arched.

Breaks in the form of open sections at 2:1, 3:1, 4:1, and at 5:1 in the form of a closed section.

No majuscular nor minuscular letters. Larger initial word of the scroll.

Hand(s)

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

Binding

BM in-house (boxed).

History

Origin: 1400-1599 15th-16th century

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_4223 (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. 48.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL