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

Title

Ketuvim (כתובים)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2377
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2377
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

Parts of the Hagiographa, provided with vowel-points and accents, with partial Arabic and Aramaic translation.

Notes

• A large portion is missing at the beginning and at the end. Several folios are missing within the manuscript.
   
• Considerable amount od folios are imperfectly preserved, especially damaged are folios 66, 88, 93, 11-115, 121-122, 134.
   
• On the margin of folios 55r, 145r are expository notes which partly agree with Rashi.
   

Extent

225 folios; 225 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Hagiographa with Arab. Vers. & Targum. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2377.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 18; written lines: 18; Uniform layout. Omissions supplied in smaller writing in the margin. Centre-marks and the number of verses frequently given. Scant masorah parva.

Script

Yemenite square script, punctuated and accentuated, of 14th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 23 July 1881 (folio [226v]).
   

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 — Proverbs
• fol. 36r — Lamentations
• fol. 52r — Ecclesiastes
• fol. 54v — Daniel
• fol. 88v — Megilat Antiochus
• fol. 94r — Esther
• fol. 142r — Ezra
• fol. 168r — Chronicles