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

Title

Polyglot Bible and fragments of liturgical texts.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 5242
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_5242
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Latin; Modern Greek (1453-); Classical Syriac; Syriac; Jewish Babylonian Aramaic (ca. 200-1200 CE); Arabic; Persian; Geez; Coptic; Castilian, Spanish; Italian; French; German

Origin

Summary

Polyglot Bible and fragments of liturgical texts.

Notes

• Usage stains.
   
• Infilled at corners and edges.
   
• Burn-through of ink on most heavily inked parts of text.
   
• Folios 21v-25v: calculations, drawings and scribblings.
   
• Folio 25v: a paste-down with a Latin description of the manuscript.
   

Extent

20 folios; 20 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Polyglotta. Brit. Mus. Additional 5242.'

Layout

Columns: 1 4; ruled lines: 8 45; written lines: 8 45; Non-uniform layout. Page divided into mostly 4 columns, with various number of lines a page.

Script

Various scripts of the 17th century. Perhaps written by the first owner, Henry Aldrich (see folio 1r).

Provenance

• Henry Aldrich
   
• Acquisition: Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector; purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753.
   

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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