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

Title

A collection of hymns, for the most part composed by Israel Najara.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 27206
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27206
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

A collection of hymns, for the most part composed by Israel Najara.

Notes

• Usage stains.
   
• The flyleaves contain some schemes of rhythms in strokes and dots.
   

Extent

211 folios; 211 folios

Foliation

Original foliation.

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Israel Najara. Sheerith Yisrael. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,206.'

Layout

Columns: 1 ; ruled lines: 22; written lines: 22; Non-uniform layout. Visible hard-point ruling. Catchwords on every verso. Titles and inital words in larger, frequently square characters. Pen and ink decorated initial letters and titles, e.g. folio 87r-87v.

Script

Oriental semi-cursive script of the 17th century.

Provenance

• Ya῾aḳov Eliyahu ben Daṿid Hayim Reḳaḥ
   
• Acquisition: Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 321: 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 [213v] (fse004v).
   

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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