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Lansdowne Ch 666

Record Id:
040-003314236
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-003313209
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100031725553.0x000002
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TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne Ch 666
Title:
Charter
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-003313209
040-003314236
Is part of:
Lansdowne Ch : Lansdowne Charters and Rolls

 

Lansdowne Ch 666 : Charter
Hierarchy:
032-003313209[0002]/040-003314236
Container:
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Record Type (Level):
File
Extent:
1 folio
Digitised Content:
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Lansdowne_Ch_666 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Latin
Scripts:
Hebrew
Latin
Start Date:
1280
End Date:
1280
Date Range:
1280
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Fitzmaurice
William Petty
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Lansdowne Ch 666

Charter

Contents

Language(s): Hebrew, Latin

ff. 1r-1v
Title: Latin sale charter with a Hebrew docket

Latin sale charter with a Hebrew docket by Oshaya ben Isaac of York known as Ursel le Eveske of Norwich ben Deulecresse of a messuage in Norwich, in a parish of St. Peter, Mancroft, to William son of Roger of South Walsham (Norfolk).

The Hebrew docket is signed by Ursel ben Isaac and three witnesses: Isaac ben Samuel, Elijah ben Elijah, and Jacob ben Jacob.

Chirograph.

Physical Description

Parchment leaf of 13th century.
Form: leaf
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 1 folio
Dimensions (leaf): 140 × 190 mm.

Collation

1 parchment leaf.

Condition

Part of the text missing due to water damage.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 21

Written lines: 21

The Hebrew text written beneath the Latin.

Hand(s)

Latin Gothic script and Hebrew Ashkenazi documentary script of the 13th century.

History

Origin: ; Norwich (England).

Provenance and Acquisition

1807

William Petty (formerlyFitzmaurice) (b. 1737, d. 1805), 2nd earl of Shelburne and 1st marquess of Lansdowne, prime minister; purchased by the British Museum together with 1244 other Lansdowne manuscripts in 1807.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965 and Olszowy-Schlanger, Judith. Hebrew and Hebrew-Latin Documents from Medieval England: a diplomatic and Palaeographical Study. Turnhout: Brill, 2015.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Lansdowne_Ch_666 (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. 1198.
    Olszowy-Schlanger, Judith. Hebrew and Hebrew-Latin Documents from Medieval England: A Diplomatic and Palaeographical Study. Monumenta Palaeographica Medii Aevi. Series Hebraica (Turnhout: Brepols, 2015), no. 180.

Funding of Cataloguing

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