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Title

Ketuvim (כתובים)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2212
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2212
• 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

• Several larger lacunae.
   
• Some leaves are imperfectly preserved.
   
• Folio 1r: a doodle page.
   
• Folio 1r, a note of ownership: לקדש כניסת יחיא אלטירי ן' אברהם מן אלנדרים אלדרי בנצר יוסף ן' סאלם אלכרנבא יצ"ו Similar inscription is found on folio 97v.
   

Extent

234 folios; 234 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 21; written lines: 21; Masorah magna occupies one line in the upper and in the lower margin. The number of verses and siman are stated at the end of each book. Ruled with mastara. Catchwords present throughout.

Script

Yemenite square script, punctuated, of 16th century. Zekharyah ben Shelomoh ben Mosheh ha-Leṿi, and Avraham ben Zekharyah, inscribed in the colophon, folio 224r.

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. 1r — Ruth
• fol. 4v — Psalms
• fol. 58v — Job
• fol. 80r — Proverbs
• fol. 97v — Ecclesiastes
• fol. 104v — Song of Songs
• fol. 108r — Lamentations
• fol. 112r — Daniel
• fol. 127v — Esther
• fol. 135v — Ezra
• fol. 159v — Chronicles
• fol. 224v — Megilat Antiochus
• fol. 228r — Masoretic lists
• fol. 233v — Comments
• fol. 234v — Poetic fragments