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

Title

Collection of poetrical works in Persian.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 4731
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_4731
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Judeo-Persian

Origin

Summary

Poetical texts, in Persian in Hebrew characters.

Notes

• Mostly repaired/infilled before rebinding.
   
• Stains at edges, often extending across large area of text.
   
• Usage stains.
   

Extent

222 folios; 222 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Timsal Namah, Etc. Persian In Hebr. Character. Brit. Mus. Or. 4731.'

Layout

Columns: 2; ruled lines: 21; written lines: 21; Uniform layout. Vertical hard-point ruling. Catchwords on every verso. Initial verses and titles in larger square charactes. Blue Persian paper.

Script

Persian semi-cursive script of the 18th to 19th century.

Provenance

• Shim῾on Ashkenazi
   
• Acquisition: Purchased by the British Museum on 02 February 1894 from S. J. A. Churchill, Esq. (b. 1862, d. 1921), a British diplomat, art connoisseur and author: inscribed, folio [224v] (fse002v).
   

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 — תמתאל נאמה
• fol. 1r — Timsal namah
• fol. 25r — אלדד הדני
• fol. 25r — Eldad ha-Dani
• fol. 36r — תפסיר מגילה
• fol. 36r — Tafsir megilah
• fol. 42r — כתאב מכזן
• fol. 42r — Kitab makhzan
• fol. 47r — שיר שבח לאליהו
• fol. 47r — Shir shevaḥ le-Eliyahu
• fol. 49r — פיוטים
• fol. 49r — Piyuṭim
• fol. 52r — אלפא ביתא דבן סירא
• fol. 52r — Alfa beta le-Ben Sira
• fol. 104r — ספור המרגלים בחרוזים
• fol. 104r — Sipur ha-meragelim be-ḥaruzim
• fol. 135r — אלדד הדני
• fol. 135r — Eldad ha-Dani
• fol. 144r — שאהזאדה וצופי
• fol. 144r — Shahzadah ṿe-tsufi
• fol. 219r — חכיאת אז סה יהודאן תאגר
• fol. 219r — Ḥakhiyat az sah Yahudan Tagr