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

Title

Sefer ha-peli᾿ah (ספר הפליאה)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Harley MS 5515
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_5515
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Italy, N.Venice

Summary

Sefer ha-peli᾿ah.

Notes

• Stained.
   
• Refa᾿el: inscribed in the colophon, folio 420v.
   
• A Latin description of the manuscript: pasted on folio 1v.
   

Extent

420 folios; 420 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Elkanah B. Yeruham. Sepher Happeliah. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Harley 5515.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 24; written lines: 24; Uniform layout. Catchwords on every verso. Maniculae, e.g., folio 8r, 111v, 259r. Diagrams in black and red ink, folio 118r, 118v, 119v. Initial words and headings given in larger square characters, partly in red ink. Additions and corrections given often in the margin.

Script

Sefardi semi-cursive of the 16th century. Yitsḥaḳ ben Mosheh ben Zeraḥ of Segovia: inscribed in the colophon, folio 420v.

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; inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley, '13 die Julij, A.D. 1723' (folio [iii recto]). 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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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — ספר הפליאה
• fol. 1r — Sefer ha-peli᾿ah