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

Title

Ethical excerpts from the Talmud and various midrashim.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 1389
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1389
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

Ethical excerpts from the Talmud and various midrashim.

Notes

• Slight dirt entry. Usage stains.
   

Extent

165 folios; 165 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM in-house. Ivory vellum spine. Spine: 'Collectanea on Moral Precepts. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1389.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 33; written lines: 32; Uniform layout. Visible pricking in outer margins and complete hard-point ruling. Hair side and flesh side of folios distinguishable, Many marginal additions and notes. Initial words and titles in square characters.

Script

Ashkenazi semi-cursive script of the 14th century. Berakhiah(?): marked off on folios 25r, 133r.

Provenance

• Dominico Irosolomitano
   
• Giovanni Domenico Carretto
   
• Yitsḥaḳ ben ῾Imanu᾿el
   
• Acquisition: Fischl Hirsch: purchased by the British Museum from him on 08 March 1876: inscribed (folio [166v]).
   

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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