Description of British Library, Add MS 27053: Ketuvim (כתובים) contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library 2022-11-16 2022-11-16 These images and the content of British Library Add MS 27053: Ketuvim (כתובים) 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 27053: Ketuvim (כתובים). 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. Imperfect at the beginning and at the end. Shelomoh Scanriani and Mosheh Refa'el Scanriani, inscribed with names on folio 227v. 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 27053 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27053 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts Parts of the Hagiographa, provided with vowel-points and accents, with marginal notes regarding ḳeri. Hebrew Ketuvim (כתובים) 1r Psalms 137r Job 197r Esther 218v Song of Songs 227v Ruth 236r Lamentations 247r Ecclesiastes

Parchment

 248 folios; 248 folios Columns: 1; ruled lines: 15; written lines: 15; Uniform layout. The catchwords from page to page are written in the middle of the lower margin. The Psalms are numbered and divided into groups, separated with blank spaces from 1 to 8 lines. Vertical ruling with pen, horizontal ruling with a sharp object. Italian square script, punctuated, of the 15th century. Natan Casallo, inscribed with his name in the colophon, folio 136v.

BM/BL in-house.

Between 1400 and 1499

Italy Acquisition: Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860); 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 bookseller and dealer to the British Museum (131-153: inscribed (folio [249v]).