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

Title

Sefer ha-goralot (ספר הגורלות)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 27017
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27017
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Unknown

Summary

Astrological writings.

Notes

• Losses at corners and edges infilled.
   
• Stained.
   

Extent

18 folios; 18 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Sepher Hag-Goraloth. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,017.'

Layout

Columns: 1 2; ruled lines: 15 25; written lines: 15 25; Uniform layout. Pen-and-ink representations of Zodiac, folio 2r. Square initial words marking the sections. Catchwords on every verso.

Script

Ashkenazi cursive script of the 16th century.

Provenance

• Feidl bat Naḥum
   
• Elyaḳim ben Mordekhai Gotschalt
   
• Acquisition: Giuseppe Almanzi(b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 8; 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 [19v] (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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