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Title

Ketuvim (כתובים)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 1476
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1476
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Judeo-Arabic

Origin

Summary

Parts of the Hagiographa, provided with vowel-points and accents, masorah magna and parva. Most of the books have an Arabic translation.

Notes

• Several larger lacunas, esp. after folio 239.
   

Extent

251 folios; 251 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Song of Sol. Lamentations. Etc. With Targum & Ara. Vers. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1480.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 22; written lines: 17; The masorah is fullest in Ezra and Chronicles. The beginnings of the sedarim marked in the margins. The number of verses and siman indicated at the end of most books.

Script

Yemenite square script, punctuated, of the 15th to 16th century.

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; inscribed back flyleaf [i]v; numbering 'No 12' (corrected to 11) probably by him on folio 1r.
   

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 — Song of Songs
• fol. 28r — Lamentations
• fol. 44v — Daniel
• fol. 81r — Esther
• fol. 141r — Ezra and Nehemiah
• fol. 168v — Chronicles
• fol. 240r — Fragment of Psalms, unpunctuated, with Arabic translation in alternate verses.
• fol. 247r — Fragment of Ruth, unpunctuated, with Targum and Arabic translation.
• fol. 248v — Comments (mostly following Rashi) on passages in Ps. 7-42.