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Sloane MS 237

Record Id:
032-003375785
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Sloane MS 237
Title:
New Testament in Hebrew translation
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
4 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Sloane_MS_237 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1500-1699
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Sir Hans Sloane
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Sloane MS 237

New Testament in Hebrew translation

Contents

The Revelation of St John in Hebrew translation.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-4v
Title: Revelation of St John 1-2:12.

Margoliouth's catalogue notes that rest of the volume used to contain a Latin manuscript "Tractatus de sphaera Armillari", which is now separated from the Hebrew part.

The Hebrew is imperfect.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th-16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines.
Extent: 4 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 127 × 91 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 1 to 4 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 16 at the end).

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 10

Written lines: 10

Uniform.

Hand(s)

Square Hebrew script.

Binding

BM in-house. Black, gold-tooled.

History

Origin: 1500-1699 16th-17th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Part of the Sloane bequest and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753.

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=Sloane_MS_237 (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. 165.

Funding of Cataloguing

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