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

Title

Kabbalistic writing.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 26947
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_26947
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

Kabbalistic writing.

Notes

• Damp entry at corners.
   
• Severe stains at top corner towards end, occasional elsewhere.
   
• Ink degrading, with some burn-through of heavily inked letters.
   

Extent

98 folios; 98 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Abraham Azulai. Chesed Le Abraham. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,947.'

Layout

Columns: 1 ; ruled lines: 41; written lines: 41; Uniform layout. Vertical hard-point ruling visible. Square initial words. Catchwords on every page.

Script

Italian cursive script of the 17th century. Elisha Valabrega: inscribed, folio 98v.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 56: his library including 322 medieval Hebrew manuscripts were purchased en bloc by the British Museum in October 1865 for £1,000 through Asher & Co., Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum: inscribed, folio [100v].
   

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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