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

Title

Psalms (תהילים)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 19342
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_19342
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Geez

Origin

Place

Ethiopia

Summary

A fragment of the Psalms in Hebrew, but written in Ethiopic characters.

Notes

• Folio 11r contains the Arabic alphabet with Ethiopic equivalents.
   
• Folios 11v-12r contain a list of church furniture in an Italian hand of the 18th century.
   

Extent

12 folios; 12 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

Post-1600. Brown leather, blind tooled. Spine: '19342. Mus. Brit. CCXVIII A. Iure Empt.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 19 32; written lines: 19 32; Irregular layout.

Script

Ethiopic script of the 18th century.

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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