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Title

Ketuvim (כתובים)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Harley MS 5715
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_5715
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

The Hagiographa, provided with vowel-points and accents.

Notes

• Imperfect at the beginning.
   
• Several records of sale by: Yudah ben Shelomoh (seller); Eliyahu, Shemuʾel, Zidkiyahu and Avraham ben Mosheh (buyers); Shelomoh ben Yeḳutiʾel da Bethel (buyer); Benyamin ben Yoʾav (buyer); Daniel ben Yeḥiʾel of Montalcino (buyer, inscribed with a date of 5135, 1375 in Perugia); and an attestation of Yeḥiʾel ben Meshullam the scribe and Benyamin ben Manoaḥ to the sale of the present manuscript by the lady Brunetta, widow of Daniel of Motalcino, to Mordekhai ben Mosheh (buyer, with a date of 5162, 1401 in Perugia on the Tiber); inscribed on folio . An English translation of the first three contracts, and an account of the last two, are attached to the paper fly-leaf at the end of the codex ().
   

Extent

165 folios; 165 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

Post-1600, Harleian binding of gold-tooled brown leather. Boxed.

Layout

Columns: 2; ruled lines: 25; written lines: 25; Uniform layout. Pencil ruling and occasionally pricking is visible. Chronicles and Esther begin a new column, and Proverbs opens a new leaf. If there is not sufficient room in a line to complete the last word, the final letter or the last two letters of the same word are placed in the margin, some vacant space being left between the columns and these letters. The number of Psalms is 151 (number 96 is divided into two parts). Few masoretic notes.

Script

Sefardi square script, punctuated and accentuated, of early 14th 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.

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Psalms
• fol. 36r — Proverbs
• fol. 52v — Job
• fol. 69v — Daniel
• fol. 80v — Ezra
• fol. 99v — Chronicles
• fol. 146r — Ruth
• fol. 148v — Song of Songs
• fol. 151r — Ecclesiastes
• fol. 156r — Esther
• fol. 162r — Lamentations