Collection ID: 0047 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Tehilim (תהילים)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 18830
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_18830
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Unknown

Summary

The Psalms, with vowel-points and accents, masorah magna and parva.

Notes

• Folio 120v: Psalterium istud est Monasterii Sancti Benedicti.
   
• Monastery of Sancta Maria de angelis in Florence and of Sanct Benedict outside the walls in Florence, inscribed as owners of this psaltery in several Latin notes on folios 1v, 3r, 120v.
   
• Folio 121v, records of birth, with a date of 5422 (1662).
   

Extent

122 folios; 122 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

BL in-house. Spine: 'Psalterium. Hebrew. British Library. Additional 18830.'

Layout

Columns: 2; ruled lines: 11; written lines: 11; Uniform layout. The Latin beginnings of the Psalms marked in the margins. Masorah magna occupies 1 line in the upper margin and up to 2 lines in the lower margin, sometimes written in an ornamental pattern. Visible pricking and folio by folio ruling with a hard-point. Hair side and flesh side of folios distinguishable.

Script

Fine Sefardi square script, punctuated, of the 14th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Löwy, Albert (Abraham) (b. 1816, d. 1908), Hebrew scholar and minister in the West London Synagogue of British Jews: purchased by the British Library from him on 10 January 1852: inscribed on folio [123v].
   

Related resources

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

Keywords

• 14th century

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — תהילים
• fol. 1r — Tehilim