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Title

Collection of poetical texts in Judeo-Persian.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2453
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2453
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Persian; Hebrew

Origin

Summary

Poetical texts in Persian, in Hebrew characters.

Notes

• Long-term damp entry, tidemarks at all edges.
   
• All folios guarded individually before rebinding, ends repaired and/or infilled.
   

Extent

220 folios; 220 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Biblical Epopee. Persian. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2453.'

Layout

Columns: 2; ruled lines: 15 18; written lines: 15 18; Uniform layout. Catchwords on every verso.

Script

Persian semi-cursive scripts of the 16th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Purchased by the British Museum on 24 June 1882 from Adolph Neubauer (b. 1831, d. 1907), a librarian at the Bodleian Library and reader in Rabbinic Hebrew at Oxford University: inscribed, folio [221v] (fse001v).
   

Related resources

• Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — יוסף וזליכה
• fol. 1r — Yusuf and Zulaikha
• fol. 34r — שירים
• fol. 34r — Poems