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

Title

Ketuvim (כתובים)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2375
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2375
• 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, with partial Aramaic and Arabic translation.

Notes

• Imperfect at the end, leaves are missing after folios 1, 2, 311, 314.
   
• Considerable amount of leaves at the beginning of the manuscript are more or less mutilated.
   

Extent

316 folios; 316 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Layout

Columns: 2; ruled lines: 24; written lines: 24; Uniform layout. The masorah magna in 1-5 lines in the upper and 1-3 lines in the lower margin. The number of verses stated at the end of each book, except of Chronicles. The Five Megilot have Targum with superlinear punctuation. The beginning of sedarim indicated in the margin with an ornamental samekh. Visible mastara ruling. Folio 316 belongs to another manuscript: written in Yemenite hand of c. 12th or 13th century, contains Leviticus 15:19-16:8.

Script

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

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 23 July 1881, folio [318v].
   

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. 9v — Psalms
• fol. 87v — Job
• fol. 119r — Proverbs
• fol. 145r — Ecclesiastes
• fol. 168v — Song of Songs
• fol. 184v — Lamentations
• fol. 195r — Daniel
• fol. 217v — Esther
• fol. 252v — Ezra
• fol. 269v — Chronicles
• fol. 312r — A treatise on accents of the three poetical books in Judeo-Arabic.