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Or 4729

Record Id:
032-003376315
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Or 4729
Title:
Psalms
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
82 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_4729 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Judeo-Persian
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1822
End Date:
1822
Date Range:
1822
Calendar:
Hebrew
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Bābā ibn Nuriel
Eliyahu ben Mosheh
Sidney John Alexander Churchill
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 4729

Psalms

Contents

The Psalms, not punctuated.

Language(s): Judaeo-Persian

ff. 1r-82v
Title: Tehilim
Title: תהילים
ff. 1r-7v
Title: A grammatical introduction

Concerns the servile letters, vowels and accents.

ff. 7v-70v
Title: Psalms

Psalms in Persian translation by Bābā ibn Nuriel of Isfahan.

Preserves the usual division into 5 parts.

Colophon: תמת אל כתאב בעון מלך אל והאב דר רוז ב' שבת כ"ז אם נמאי סיון שנת התקפ"ב ליצירה אז גהת ... מרקום גרדיר הצעיר והזעיר משה בה"ר מ' יששכר נ"ע אמיד מבארך באד אוי"ר. f. 70v
Author: Bābā ibn Nuriel
ff. 70v-82v
Title: Azharot

Contains poetical pieces.

Physical Description

Paper codex of 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 82 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 230 × 155 mm.
Dimensions (written): 170 × 147 mm.
Foliation:

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

Condition

Several pages are water-damaged or mutilated.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 22

Written lines: 22

Written on blue oriental paper.

Catchwords on every verso.

Hand(s)

Persian cursive script of 19th century. Mosheh ben Issakhar (scribe): inscribed in the colophon, folio 70v.

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

History

Origin: 1822 Persia

Provenance and Acquisition

Eliyahu ben Mosheh, inscribed with his name on folio 70v.

Sidney John Alexander Churchill (b. 1862, d. 1921), a British diplomat, art connoisseur, and author: purchased from him on 2 February 1894: inscribed folio [84v] .

1894-02-02

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_4729 (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. 159.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL