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

Title

Poetical pieces and personal correspondence.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2588
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2588
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Judeo-Arabic

Origin

Summary

Poetical pieces and personal correspondence.

Notes

• Tears/splits.
   
• Worming.
   
• Old repairs obscuring text.
   

Extent

30 folios; 30 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Poems. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental Ms. 2588.'

Layout

Columns: 1 2; ruled lines: 23 ; written lines: 23 ; Uniform layout. Larger square initials. Sections numbered with Hebrew letters in the margin.

Script

Oriental semi-cursive script of the 14th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: inscribed, folio [31v] (fse002v).
   

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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