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

Harley Ch 43 A 67 B Latin quitclaim with a Hebrew docket

Title

Latin quitclaim with a Hebrew docket

Funders

The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Harley Ch 43 A 67 B
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Latin

Origin

1264

Place: Unknown

Summary

Latin quitclaim with a Hebrew docket

Extent

1 folio; 1 folio

Support

Parchment

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 13; written lines: 13; The Hebrew text written beneath the Latin text.

Script

Latin Gothic script and Hebrew 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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URL

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