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Title

Ketuvim (כתובים)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 1475
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1475
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Yemen

Summary

The Hagiographa, provided with vowel-points and accents, masorah magna and parva.

Notes

• Avraham, Zekharyah and David ben Shelomoh ben David at-Ṭabīʻah, inscribed in the colophon, folio 138v.
   
• Lulwah (?) bat Ḥasan at-Ṭabīʻah and Ibrahim ibn Da'ud, inscribed in the contract of sale with a date of 22 Sivan 165 (1654) and the names of three witnesses; in Judeo-Arabic, folio 138v.
   
• A list of previous owners' names, undated, folio 1r.
   

Extent

138 folios; 138 folios

Foliation

The leaves are numbered with Hebrew letters.

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Layout

Columns: 2; ruled lines: 28; written lines: 28; Visible mastara ruling. Each of the first six books begins with a new column. The number of verses and the middle verse are stated at the end of most of the books. Scanty masorah parva.

Script

Yemenite square script, punctuated, of 17th century. Avraham ben Yosef ben Seʿadyah, inscribed with his name, folio 138v.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 24 November 1877, folio [141v].
   

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. 1v — Ruth
• fol. 3v — Psalms
• fol. 34r — Job
• fol. 47r — Proverbs
• fol. 58r — Ecclesiastes
• fol. 62v — Song of Songs
• fol. 64v — Lamentations
• fol. 67r — Esther
• fol. 72r — Daniel
• fol. 82r — Ezra
• fol. 98r — Chronicles