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Or 1489

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032-003374511
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Or 1489
Title:
David Kimḥi's commentary on the Psalms.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
132 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1489 (digital images currently unavailable)
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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:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Eliyah
Kimhi, David ben Joseph, 1159-1236
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 1489

David Kimḥi's commentary on the Psalms.

Contents

David Kimḥi's commentary on the Book of Psalms.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-131v
Title: Perush ha-tehilim
Title: פרוש התהלים
Author: Kimhi, David קמחי, דוד בן יוסף

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Extent: 132 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 290 × 195 mm.
Dimensions (written): 215 × 145 mm.
Foliation:

132 folios (+ 2 unfoliated modern flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

Condition

One leaf is missing after folio 124.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 35

Written lines: 35

Pricking and hard-point ruling are visible. Characters suspended from the lines.

Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.

Several erasures of the censor. A former owner has scribbled on a number of leaves.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive script, unpunctuated. Eliyah: his name marked at the beginning of lines on folio 73v, 77v.

Additions:

Folios 131v-132v contain doodles.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century Italy

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=Or_1489 (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. 205.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL