Description of British Library, Add MS 18830: Tehilim (תהילים) contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library 2020-08-10 2020-08-10 These images and the content of British Library Add MS 18830: Tehilim (תהילים) are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. To the extent possible under law, British Library has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about British Library Add MS 18830: Tehilim (תהילים). This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode. Folio 120v: Psalterium istud est Monasterii Sancti Benedicti. Monastery of Sancta Maria de angelis in Florence and of Sanct Benedict outside the walls in Florence, inscribed as owners of this psaltery in several Latin notes on folios 1v, 3r, 120v. Folio 121v, records of birth, with a date of 5422 (1662). Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965. United Kingdom London British Library Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project Add MS 18830 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_18830 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts The Psalms, with vowel-points and accents, masorah magna and parva. Hebrew Tehilim (תהילים) 1r תהילים 1r Tehilim

Parchment

 122 folios; 122 folios Columns: 2; ruled lines: 11; written lines: 11; Uniform layout. The Latin beginnings of the Psalms marked in the margins. Masorah magna occupies 1 line in the upper margin and up to 2 lines in the lower margin, sometimes written in an ornamental pattern. Visible pricking and folio by folio ruling with a hard-point. Hair side and flesh side of folios distinguishable. Fine Sefardi square script, punctuated, of the 14th century.

BL in-house. Spine: 'Psalterium. Hebrew. British Library. Additional 18830.'

Between 1300 and 1399

Unknown Acquisition: Löwy, Albert (Abraham) (b. 1816, d. 1908), Hebrew scholar and minister in the West London Synagogue of British Jews: purchased by the British Library from him on 10 January 1852: inscribed on folio [123v]. 14th century