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Harley MS 2427
- Record Id:
- 040-003948062
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-003948062
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100124336762.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100145086281.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2427
- Title:
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Psalms. Psalms and Proverbs in English, Latin, Hebrew and Greek in 4 columns on each page
- Scope & Content:
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Language : Hebrew
The Psalms in Hebrew, unpunctuated and accompanied by Greek and Latin translation.
Tehilim.
תהילים
Note: Contains a fragment of Proverbs, 20:14-30:33. Main text in Hebrew with vowel-points and accents, accompanied with a parallel Septuagint and a Latin version. The Psalms have also an English translation.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-003948062", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2427: Psalms. Psalms and Proverbs in English, Latin, Hebrew and Greek in 4 columns on each page" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-003948062 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2427 : Psalms. Psalms and Proverbs in English, Latin, Hebrew and Greek in 4 columns on each page - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[7872]/040-003948062
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 161 folios (ii+161+iii)
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100145086281.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
Greek, Ancient
Greek, Modern
Hebrew
Latin - Scripts:
- Greek
Hebrew
Latin - Start Date:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1799
- Date Range:
- 1600-1799
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Paper codex of the 17th-18th century.
161 folios (ii+161+iii). Dimensions (leaf): 194 x 145 mm. Dimensions (written): 190 x 140 mm.
Format: codex. Material: paper.
Foliation: Foliation in pencil; running from LEFT TO RIGHT. Pagination in ink by the scribe.
Collation: Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.
Condition: Some book-worming visible near the inside margin.
Layout: Columns: 3. Ruled lines: 25 to 30. Written lines: 25 to 30. The book opens from left to right. Some corrections made by the scribe himself were made by gluing a piece of paper to the corrected part of the text.
Hand note: Hebrew.
Number of hands: 1.
Script: Square script of 17-18th century. Written by an anonymous student for his own use.
Binding: Post-1600, Harleian brown-leather binding with gold tooling. Boxed.
Paper. ff. 161 (formerly pp.312). 195 x 145 (170 x 138) mm. B.M. binding (18th cent.)
- Custodial History:
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Owned by Robert Burscough (Fontes pp.87-88; not in CMA II 7620-7710, 9162-9179). Purchased for the Harleian Library, 17 May 1715 (f. 1*; Diary p.11 n.6)
- Source of Acquisition:
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Acquisition: The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (owner) (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (owner) (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts. Inscription by Harley's librarian, Humfrey Wanley, 17 May 1715, inscribed on front flyleaf (ii)r. Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (owner) (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (owner) (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.
Date of origin: 17th-18th century.
- Appraisal:
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Condition: Some book-worming visible near the inside margin.
- Administrative Context:
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Date of origin: 17th-18th century.
- Finding Aids:
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Record history: Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.
- Publications:
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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. 157.
Source: Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.
Credit: The Polonsky Foundation Catalogue of Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts.
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols, London 1808-1812, p.691A. Rahlfs, Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments (Nachrichten von der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen philol.-hist. Klasse), Berlin 1914, 1660
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- Credit: The Polonsky Foundation Catalogue of Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts.