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

Title

A glossary of the difficult words of the Bible, explained in Persian.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2454
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2454
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Persian

Origin

Summary

A glossary of the difficult words of the Bible, explained in Persian.

Notes

• Leaves missing after folio 48.
   
• Damp entry at all edges.
   
• Tidemarks and ink runs, with some loss of text.
   

Extent

54 folios; 54 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Glossary of Biblical Words. Hebrew-Persian. Brit. Mus. Or. Ms. 2454.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 16 18; written lines: 16 18; Uniform layout. Many marginal notes and additions throughout. Running titles. Margins ruled with blue and red lines.

Script

Persian semi-cursive script of the 19th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Adolf Neubauer (b. 1831, d. 1907), a librarian at the Bodleian Library and a reader in rabbinic Hebrew at Oxford University: purchased from him on 24 June 1882: inscribed, folio [55v] (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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