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

Harley Ch 43 A 54 Sheṭar (שטר)

Title

Sheṭar (שטר)

Funders

The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Harley Ch 43 A 54
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Latin

Origin

Between 1201 and 1203

Place: Unknown

Summary

Hebrew/Latin charter

Notes

Damages repaired. Seal fragments in a separate envelope.

Extent

1 folio; 1 folio

Support

Parchment

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 5 17; written lines: 5 17; The Hebrew text written on the verso of the Latin text. Seal attached with a strip of parchment.

Script

Latin Gothic and Ashkenazi documentary script of the 13th century.

Provenance

Acquisition: The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts. Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, d.1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.

Related resources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965 and Olszowy-Schlanger, Judith. Hebrew and Hebrew-Latin Documents from Medieval England: a diplomatic and Palaeographical Study. Turnhout: Brill, 2015.

Licenses

Text

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URL

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Text

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