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

Title

Mishnah (משנה)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Harley MS 5794*
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_5794*
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

Some portions of the Mishnah of Avot and Zevaḥim, provided with vowel-points and accents, and apparently intended for private liturgical recitation.

Notes

• Part of each leaf has been cut away on the outer side. A line has also been cut at the top.
   
• Fairly damaged.
   

Extent

4 folios; 4 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

Bm in-house. Harleian coat of arms on the upper cover. Spine title: 'Mishna of Aboth and Lebahim. Mus. Brit. Harl. Or. 5794*.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 29; written lines: 28; Visible hard-point ruling. The Hebrew text is given with punctuation.

Script

Sefardi square script of probably 12th century, with 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.

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — משנה
• fol. 1r — Mishnah