Description of British Library, Harley MS 5715: Ketuvim (כתובים) contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library 2022-11-22 2022-11-22 These images and the content of British Library Harley MS 5715: 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 Harley MS 5715: 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. Several records of sale by: Yudah ben Shelomoh (seller); Eliyahu, Shemuʾel, Zidkiyahu and Avraham ben Mosheh (buyers); Shelomoh ben Yeḳutiʾel da Bethel (buyer); Benyamin ben Yoʾav (buyer); Daniel ben Yeḥiʾel of Montalcino (buyer, inscribed with a date of 5135, 1375 in Perugia); and an attestation of Yeḥiʾel ben Meshullam the scribe and Benyamin ben Manoaḥ to the sale of the present manuscript by the lady Brunetta, widow of Daniel of Motalcino, to Mordekhai ben Mosheh (buyer, with a date of 5162, 1401 in Perugia on the Tiber); inscribed on folio . An English translation of the first three contracts, and an account of the last two, are attached to the paper fly-leaf at the end of the codex (). 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 Harley MS 5715 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_5715 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts The Hagiographa, provided with vowel-points and accents. Hebrew Ketuvim (כתובים) 1r Psalms 36r Proverbs 52v Job 69v Daniel 80v Ezra 99v Chronicles 146r Ruth 148v Song of Songs 151r Ecclesiastes 156r Esther 162r Lamentations

Parchment

 165 folios; 165 folios Columns: 2; ruled lines: 25; written lines: 25; Uniform layout. Pencil ruling and occasionally pricking is visible. Chronicles and Esther begin a new column, and Proverbs opens a new leaf. If there is not sufficient room in a line to complete the last word, the final letter or the last two letters of the same word are placed in the margin, some vacant space being left between the columns and these letters. The number of Psalms is 151 (number 96 is divided into two parts). Few masoretic notes. Sefardi square script, punctuated and accentuated, of early 14th century.

Post-1600, Harleian binding of gold-tooled brown leather. Boxed.

Between 1300 and 1340

 Acquisition: 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. 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.