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

Title

Portions of the Mishnah.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Harley MS 1795
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_1795
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

Portions of the Mishnah.

Extent

130 folios; 130 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

Post-1600. Ivory leather. Boxed. Spine title: 'Tractat Var. Rabbinic Heb. Lat. Tho. Cauto. 1656. Mus. Brit. Bibl. Harl. 1795.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 20 30; written lines: 20 30; The Hebrew text is given on every verso, with punctuation.

Script

Square script of the 17th century, very badly written, with a faulty punctuation.

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.

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