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Or 2452

Record Id:
032-003375132
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Or 2452
Title:
Book of Psalms
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
54 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2452 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Judeo-Persian
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1849
Date Range:
1700-1849
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Adolf Neubauer
Bābā ibn Nuriel
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2452

Book of Psalms

Contents

The Psalms, not punctuated.

Language(s): Judeo-Persian

ff. 1r-54v
Title: Tehilim
Title: תהילים
ff. 1r-7v
Title: A grammatical introduction

Concerns the servile letters, vowels and accents.

Missing about half of the text.

ff. 7v-54v
Title: Psalms

Psalms in Persian translation by Bābā ibn Nuriel of Isfahan.

Preserves the usual division into 5 parts.

Breaks off near the end of Ps. 132.

Author: Bābā ibn Nuriel

Physical Description

Paper codex of 18th-19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 54 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 230 × 155 mm.
Dimensions (written): 170 × 147 mm.
Foliation:

54 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and at the end).

Condition

Several pages water-damaged or mutilated.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 25 26

Written lines: 25 26

Uniform layout.

Written on oriental paper.

Catchwords on every verso.

Hand(s)

Persian cursive script of 18th to 19th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

History

Origin: 1700-1849 18th century - 1st half of the 19th century Iran

Provenance and Acquisition

1882-06-24

Adolf Neubauer (b. 1832, d. 1907), Hebrew scholar born in Hungary: purchased by the British Museum from him on 24 June 1882: inscribed, [55v].

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_2452 (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. 160.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL