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

Title

Tehilim (תהילים)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 4729
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_4729
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Judeo-Persian

Origin

Place

Persia

Summary

The Psalms, not punctuated.

Notes

• Several pages are water-damaged or mutilated.
   
• Eliyahu ben Mosheh (owner), inscribed with his name on folio 70v.
   

Extent

82 folios; 82 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 22; written lines: 22; Written on blue oriental paper. Catchwords on every verso.

Script

Persian cursive script of 19th century. Mosheh ben Issakhar (scribe): inscribed in the colophon, folio 70v.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Sidney John Alexander Churchill (b. 1862, d. 1921), a British diplomat, art connoisseur, and author: purchased from him on 2 February 1894: inscribed folio [84v] .
   

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 — A grammatical introduction
• fol. 7v — Psalms
• fol. 70v — Azharot