Description of British Library, Add MS 20747: Piyuṭim (פיוטים) contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library 2020-10-13 2020-10-13 These images and the content of British Library Add MS 20747: Piyuṭim (פיוטים) 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 20747: Piyuṭim (פיוטים). 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. Leaves missing after folio 32. Defective at the beginning and at the end. Stained. 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 20747 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_20747 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts Part of a collection of piyuṭim belonging to the Sefardi rite. Hebrew Piyuṭim (פיוטים) 1r פיוטים 1r Piyuṭim

Parchment

 39 folios; 39 folios Columns: 1 ; ruled lines: 10; written lines: 10; Uniform layout. Initial words written in larger characters. Hair side and flesh side of the folios distinguishable. Sections numbered in the outer margin (see e.g. folio 14r). Sefardi square script, punctuated, of the 14th century.

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Fragment of a Collection of Piyyutim. Hebrew & Aramaic. Brit. Mus. Additional MS. 20,747.'

Between 1300 and 1399

 Acquisition: Adolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum (see 131-153: purchased by the British Museum from him on 24 May 1852: inscribed, folio [40v].