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

Or 4223 The Book of Lamentations.

Title

The Book of Lamentations.

Funders

The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 4223
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Between 1400 and 1599

Summary

The Book of Lamentations.

Notes

Surface disturbed by erasure.
Darkening edges and a few text areas.
Ink offset to verso from rolling (possible damp).

Extent

2 membranes, 9 columns.; 2 membranes, 9 columns.

Support

Leather

Binding

BM in-house (boxed).

Layout

Columns: 9; ruled lines: 24; written lines: 24; Uniform layout. Ruling by hard point, membrane by membrane. Visible pricking. No tagin on שעטנזגץ. The letter ח is frequently arched. Breaks in the form of open sections at 2:1, 3:1, 4:1, and at 5:1 in the form of a closed section. No majuscular nor minuscular letters. Larger initial word of the scroll.

Script

Yemenite square script of the 15th to 16th century.

Provenance

Acquisition: Acquired by the British Museum from C.D. Ginsburg on 17 February 1891.

Related resources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

Licenses

Text

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URL

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Text

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URL

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fol. 1r
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