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Or 14874

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032-003437797
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Or 14874
Title:
Hebrew fragments in glass sheets
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
26 fragments in 6 glass sheets.
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_14874 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1600-1899
Era:
CE
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 14874

Hebrew fragments in glass sheets

Contents

Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic fragments in 6 glass sheets.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-6v
Title: Hebrew fragments

Sheet 1: a fragment from a Judeo-Arabic piyuṭ, a fragment from one of Yehudah Haleṿi's Elegy on Zion beginning ציון הלא תשאלי; two fragments of a Judeo-Arabic letter addressed to החכם השלם הדיין המצויין יוספ הכהן.

Sheet 2: two fragments, possibly from the same halakhical(?) manuscript.

Sheet 3: 11 small fragments; according to modern notes they may be midrashim.

Sheet 4: fragment of a paper bifolio from a Hebrew kabbalistic work?

Sheet 5: five fragments. The largest fragment has a diagram, with a caption in the middle: ואתה באמצע גרעין אחד; another smaller square-shaped fragment in Judeo-Arabic(?).

Sheet 6: three fragments, in Hebrew and in Judeo-Arabic, perhaps letters?

Colophon:

Physical Description

Paper fragments of various ages.
Form: leaf
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 26 fragments in 6 glass sheets.
Dimensions (leaf): 380 × 260 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Condition

Layout

Columns:1

Given dimensions are those of the glass sheets.

Hand(s)

Various Hebrew scripts.

Decoration

Additions:

Description of the fragments on modern blue paper slips are also included into the glass sheets.

Binding

In glass.

History

Origin: 1600-1899 Ca. 17th-19th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Acquired in 1993/4.

Record Sources

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_14874 (digital images currently unavailable)

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Funding of Cataloguing

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