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

Title

A collection of marriage contracts.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 1434
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1434
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

A collection of marriage contracts.

Notes

• Once stored folded, now flattened and guarded for binding.
   
• Lots of dirt on versos, especially around fold lines.
   
• A few inks smears and usage stains.
   

Extent

13 folios; 13 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Marriage Certificates. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1434.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 21 25; written lines: 21 25;

Script

Hebrew square script of the 19th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: J. Stickley: purchased from him by the British Museum on 27 March 1877: inscribed, folio [i recto] (fs001r).
   

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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