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Harley MS 5794*

Record Id:
032-003376527
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Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5794*
Title:
Mishnah
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
4 folios
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1100
End Date:
1199
Date Range:
1100-1199
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Edward Harley
Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles
Margaret Cavendish Bentinck
Robert Harley
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Harley MS 5794*

Mishnah

Contents

Summary of Contents: Some portions of the Mishnah, tractates Avot and Zevaḥim, provided with vowel-points and accents, and apparently intended for private liturgical recitation.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-4v
Title: Mishnah
Title: משנה

The present text shows affinity with the Palestinian recension of the Mishnah.

About a third of the text is wanting, besides the missing line at the top of each page.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 12th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 4 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 270 × 195 mm.
Dimensions (written): 265 × 175 mm.
Foliation:

4 folios (+ 1 modern paper flyleaf at the beginning and 22 at the end).

Collation

Indeterminable.

Condition

Part of each leaf has been cut away on the outer side. A line has also been cut at the top.

Fairly damaged.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 29

Written lines: 28

Visible hard-point ruling.

The Hebrew text is given with punctuation.

Hand(s)

Sefardi square script of probably 12th century, with punctuation.

Binding

Bm in-house. Harleian coat of arms on the upper cover.

Spine title: 'Mishna of Aboth and Lebahim. Mus. Brit. Harl. Or. 5794*.'

History

Origin: 1100-1199 12th century Spain

Provenance and Acquisition

1753

The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts. Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, d. 1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.

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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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. 442.

Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing

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