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

Title

Piyuṭim (פיוטים)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 20747
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_20747
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

Part of a collection of piyuṭim belonging to the Sefardi rite.

Notes

• Leaves missing after folio 32.
   
• Defective at the beginning and at the end.
   
• Stained.
   

Extent

39 folios; 39 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Fragment of a Collection of Piyyutim. Hebrew & Aramaic. Brit. Mus. Additional MS. 20,747.'

Layout

Columns: 1 ; ruled lines: 10; written lines: 10; Uniform layout. Initial words written in larger characters. Hair side and flesh side of the folios distinguishable. Sections numbered in the outer margin (see e.g. folio 14r).

Script

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

Provenance

• Acquisition: Adolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum (see 131-153: purchased by the British Museum from him on 24 May 1852: inscribed, folio [40v].
   

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. 1r — פיוטים
• fol. 1r — Piyuṭim