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

Title

Hagadah for Passover (the 'Sister Hagadah').

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2884
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2884
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Spain, N.E.Barcelona

Summary

Hagadah for Passover (the 'Sister Hagadah').

Notes

• A handwritten note on paper, stuck onto the inside lower cover: Le pitture rappresentareo I fatti principali delle Genesi e dell'Estudo fino al passaggio del Mar Rosso compito; li ultimi tre se referiscono ni riti Pasquali Ebraici, e il tuto alla fine del MS. contiene il Rituale della Pasqua delgi Ebrei.
   
• Vergane Pietro: inscribed with his name in pencil (folio ).
   

Extent

64 folios; 64 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

Pre-1600. White parchment binding.

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 6 20; written lines: 6 20; Ruling is visible. Hair-side and flesh-side of the folios are not distinguishable. Watermark on folio [i recto] and [65r], of a hexagonal star, unidentified.

Script

Sefardi square script, main text punctuated, captions and instructions for the Seder not punctuated.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Eugen von Miller: purchased by the British Museum from him on 13 June 1885 (inscription in folio [65v]).
   

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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