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

Title

A poetical piece.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 4745
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_4745
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Judeo-Persian

Origin

Summary

A poetical piece.

Notes

• Fragile binding with Islamic endbands, leather spinepiece.
   
• Tidemarks at edges.
   
• Stains within the textblock from liquid and usage.
   

Extent

120+[i]; 120+[i]

Support

Paper

Binding

Post-1600. Brown and black leather. Boxed. Spine: 'Divan of Hafiz. Persian in Hebr. Character. Brit. Mus. Or. 4547.'

Layout

Columns: 1 2; ruled lines: 21; written lines: 21; Uniform layout. Ruling by hard point, leaf by leaf on verso. Larger square initials. Marginal notes and additions. Catchwords on every verso

Script

Persian semi-cursive script of the 18th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: S.J.A. Churchill Esq.: purchased from him by the British Museum on 14 February 1894: inscribed, back flyleaf [i]v.
   

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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• Text

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