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Title

Berit ḥadashah (ברית חדשה

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 11659
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_11659
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

London, England

Summary

The four Gospels in the Hebrew translation.

Notes

• Fragile boards.
   
• Folio 1v: an account of the translation, printed by the London Society for the Promotion of Christianity among the Jews.
   
• Folio 2v: an English description of the manuscript, a paste-down, with four seals.
   

Extent

134 folios; 134 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Gospels in Hebrew. Translated by Tho. Yeats. Mus. Brit. Presented by Mrs E. Gravel. 11, 659. Plut. COXLIII.D.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 21; written lines: 21; Uniform layout. Modern ruled notebook. Running titles. Sections numbered in the margin.

Script

Square script, punctuated, of the 19th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Esther Gravell, sister of the translator: presented this manuscript to the British Museum on his request on 4 November 1839: inscribed with her name on folio 2v.
   

Related resources

• Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 4r — Matthew
• fol. 42r — Mark
• fol. 66r — Luke
• fol. 103r — John