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

Title

Grammatical writing.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2596
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2596
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Jewish Babylonian Aramaic (ca. 200-1200 CE)

Origin

Summary

Grammatical writing.

Notes

• Darkening and damp stains around edges.
   
• Usage stains. Dirt at lower corners.
   
• Repaired and guarded before rebinding.
   

Extent

[i]+43+[ii]; [i]+43+[ii]

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Helek Had-Dikduk. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental Ms. 2596.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 32 38; written lines: 32 38; Uniform layout. Visible ruling with hard-point. Titles and inital words in larger square characters. Catchwords on every page.

Script

Yemenite semi-cursive script of the 18th century.

Provenance

• Salam Yitsḥaḳ
   
• Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased from him by the British Museum on 08 July 1882: inscribed, folio [44v] (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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