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Or 2373

Record Id:
032-003376836
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Or 2373
Title:
Hagiographa
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
125 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2373 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1200
End Date:
1299
Date Range:
1200-1299
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2373

Hagiographa

Contents

A portion of the Hagiographa with masorah magna and parva.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-125v
Title: Ketuvim
Title: כתובים

Full page drawing, in colours. f. 114r

5 geometrical decorations at the beginning or at the end of certain biblical books, in colours. f. 2r, 65v, 91r, 113v, 122v

Numerous marginal decorations at the beginning of chapters, in red and brown ink.

ff. 1r-2r
Title: Ruth

Missing chapters: 1:1-3:2

ff. 2r-65v
Title: Psalms

Missing chapters 17:4-18:29

ff. 65v-91r
Title: Job
ff. 91r-114v
Title: Proverbs
ff. 114v-122v
Title: Ecclesiastes
ff. 122v-125v
Title: Song of Songs

Ending with the middle of 6:11.

References

[Narkiss_1989] 74-75

Physical Description

Parchment codex of approximately 13th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 125 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 320 × 245 mm.
Dimensions (written): 210 × 170 mm.
Foliation:

125 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Originally mostly quires of 10 leaves.

Condition

Incomplete at the beginning and at the end.

Numerous lacunae.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 22

Written lines: 22

Uniform layout.

Several masoretic notes and rubrics.

Pricking and ruling (with hard-point on the hair side of the folio) are visible.

Hand(s)

Oriental square script, punctuated, of 13th century.

Decoration

Full page drawing, in colours. 5 geometrical decorations at the beginning or at the end of certain biblical books, in colours. Numerous marginal decorations at the beginning of chapters, in red and brown ink.

f. 114r Full page drawing, in colours.

5 geometrical decorations at the beginning or at the end of certain biblical books, in colours. f. 2r, 65v, 91r, 113v, 122v

Numerous marginal decorations at the beginning of chapters, in red and brown ink.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: Hagiographa. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2373.'

History

Origin: 1200-1299 13th century Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 23 July 1881: inscribed, back flyleaf (i)v.

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_2373 (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. 142.

Bibliography

    [Narkiss_1989] Bezalel Narkiss, V. V Stasov (Vladimir Vasilʹevich), and David Günzburg. 'Illuminations from Hebrew Bibles of Leningrad.'Jerusalem: Bialik Institute, 1989.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL