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

Title

Ethical writings.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 27204
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27204
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Yiddish

Origin

Summary

Ethical writings.

Notes

• Imperfect at the end.
   
• Some leaves mutilated.
   
• Corroding ink, with loss of text on several pages.
   
• Folio 1: a title page, in German.
   

Extent

178 folios; 178 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Boxed. Spine: 'Sefer Middoth. German. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,204.'

Layout

Columns: 1 ; ruled lines: 19; written lines: 19; Uniform layout. Initial words, headings and emphasised words in red ink. Some marginal additions. Visible hard-point ruling. Some pen and ink ornamentations (e.g., folios 2r, 22r, 36v, 44v, 45v, 69v, 149v), in red and black. Catchwords on every verso. Red edges.

Script

Ashkenazi cursive script of the 16th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 318: 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 dealer to the British Museum (see 131-153): inscribed, folio [180v] (fse002v).
   

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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