Description of British Library, Add MS 26973: Tehilim (תהילים) contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library These images and the content of British Library Add MS 26973: 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 26973: 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. Avraham: inscribed, folio 1r. A former owner's name on the inside of the front cover is not legible, but his father's name was Yitsḥaḳ of Cologne. Written in Italian cursive script. 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 26973 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_26973 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts The Psalms, not punctuated. Hebrew Tehilim (תהילים)

Parchment

 129 folios; 129 folios Columns: 2; ruled lines: 11; written lines: 11; Hebrew numbering of the Psalms throughout. Visible pricking and ruling with a hard-point. Vanilla-dotted hair-side of folios. Italian square and cursive script, punctuated, of 15th century.

Post-1600, brown leather with gold tooling. Gilt edges. Boxed.

Between 1400 and 1499

Italy Acquisition: Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his library including 322 medieval Hebrew manuscripts were purchased en bloc by the British Museum in October 1865 for £1,000 through Asher & Co., Berlin dealer to the British Museum, 1841-1853 (131-153): inscribed folio ([130r]).