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Title

Ketuvim (כתובים)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 9405
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_9405
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

Two uniform volumes containing detached protions of Maḥzor, provided with vowel-points and accents.

Extent

14 folios; 14 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

Post-1600, tooled brown leather with clasps. Spine: 'Megilloth. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 9405.'

Layout

Columns: 3; ruled lines: 29; written lines: 28; Uniform layout. Initial word of each book written in large ornamental letters. Some masoretic rubrics at the end of each book.

Script

Ashkenazi square script, punctuated and accentuated, of 14th century. Shelomoh bar Yeḥiʾel, inscibed with his name in volume two of this manuscript, Add MS 9406, folio 32v, with a date of Nisan 5069 (1309).

Provenance

• ... bar Avraham
   
• Acquisition: Adam Clarke (b. 1762, d. 1832), Wesleyan Methodist minister and scholar: his bookplate with Greek inscription: ho theos agape estin (inner upper cover). This manuscript formed part of the collection of ten Hebrew manuscripts, together with Add MS 9398-9407, once property of the Hagen family and then bought for Adam Clarke at Utrecht in 1823, acquired by the British Museum in 1834.
   

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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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Song of Songs
• fol. 3v — Ruth
• fol. 6r — Ecclesiastes
• fol. 12r — Lamentations