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

Title

Ḳinot (dirges).

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2589
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2589
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

Poems of lamentation for various occasions.

Notes

• Damp at all edges.
   
• All folios individually guarded before rebinding, with lots of repairs/infills at edges.
   
• Stained.
   
• Many leaves missing.
   
• Folios 2r-11r contain imperfect alphabetical indexes of the pieces included in the manuscript.
   

Extent

188 folios; 188 folios

Foliation

Incomplete Hebrew foliation.

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Kinoth. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Or. 2589.'

Layout

Columns: 1 2; ruled lines: 20 30; written lines: 20 30; Non-uniform layout. Catchowords on most of the versos. Initials in larger square character in the latter part of the manuscript. Marginal notes. Sections marked in the margins. Folio 1 is a title-page.

Script

Oriental semi-cursive scripts, partly punctuated, of the 17th century.

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 — קינות
• fol. 1r — Ḳinot