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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

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

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

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