Description of British Library, Harley MS 5449: Mishle Sendabar (משלי סנדבר)contributorIlana TahancatalogerAgata PaluchThe Polonsky FoundationBritish Library2022-12-132022-12-13These images and the content of British Library Harley MS 5449: Mishle Sendabar (משלי סנדבר) 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 Harley MS 5449: Mishle Sendabar (משלי סנדבר). 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.Corroding ink.Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.United KingdomLondonBritish LibraryHebrew Manuscripts Digitisation ProjectHarley MS 5449http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_5449https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscriptsEthical writings.HebrewMishle Sendabar (משלי סנדבר)1rמשלי סנדבר1rMishle Sendabar
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66 folios; 66 folios Columns: 1 ; ruled lines: 11; written lines: 11; Uniform layout.Square script of the 17th century.
FranceAcquisition: The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley, '20 Februarij 1719/20', folio 1r. Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (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.