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Title

Petaḥ devarai (פתח דברי)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 18970
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_18970
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Spain

Summary

Grammatical writings.

Notes

• Stained.
   
• Incomplete at the beginning.
   
• Yosef Tsaror: inscribed with his name (folio 104v).
   
• Shemu᾿el Dafno: inscribed with his name (folio 125v).
   
• Don Meir ben Ban: inscribed with his name (folio 125v).
   
• Don Avraham ben Ban: inscribed with his name (folio 125v).
   

Extent

125 folios; 125 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Hebrew Grammar. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional Ms. 18,970.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 17; written lines: 17; Uniform layout. Visible hard-point ruling. Hair side and flesh side of folios distinguishable. Titles and inital words in larger square characters. Last word of a quire repeated at the beginning of a new quire. Marginal notes. Unfoliated blank leaf after folio 105.

Script

Sefardi semi-cursive and square script, punctuated, of the 15th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Adolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum 1841-1853: purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 June 1852: inscribed, folio [126v] (fse001v).
   

Related resources

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

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — פתח דברי
• fol. 1r — Petaḥ devarai
• fol. 106v — לוחות הפועל
• fol. 106v — Luḥot ha-po῾el