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Title

Ketuvim (כתובים)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 1477
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1477
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Judeo-Arabic

Origin

Place

Yemen

Summary

Parts of the Hagiographa, provided with vowel-points and Arabic translation in alternate verses.

Notes

• Several larger lacunas. Some leaves are imperfectly preserved.
   
• Yosef ben Seʿadyah ben Shalom, inscribed with his name with no date, folio 115r.
   

Extent

116 folios; 116 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 23 24; written lines: 23 24; The Psalms are divided into 5 parts. The sedarim are marked in the margins, with a simple pen and ink design. Occasional masoretic notes are preserved in the margins.

Script

Yemenite (showing similarity to Persian) square script, punctuated, of the 14th 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 (folio [117v]). Folio supplied by him on 11 May 1879.
   

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 — Psalms
• fol. 92v — Ecclesiastes
• fol. 108v — Song of Songs
• fol. 115v — Lamentations