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

Title

Poetical text in Persian, in Hebrew characters.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 4743
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_4743
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Persian; Hebrew

Origin

Summary

Poetical text in Persian, in Hebrew characters.

Notes

• Tidemarks at foredge.
   

Extent

65 folios; 65 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Danial Namah. Persian In Hebrew Character. Brit. Mus. Or. 4743.'

Layout

Columns: 2; ruled lines: 20; written lines: 20; Uniform layout. Catchwords on every verso. Titles and initial verses in larger square charactes.

Script

Persian semi-cursive script of the 19th century. Mordekhai ben Meruḥam: inscribed in the colophon, folio 65r.

Provenance

• Mosheh Ḥayim ben Eliyahu Mordekhai
   
• 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 [66v] (fse001v).
   

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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