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

Title

Piyuṭim

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 4855
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_4855
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

Religious poetry.

Notes

• Front damp and mouldy, with tidemarks.
   
• Repaired and infilled before rebinding, older repairs obscure text.
   
• Usage stains, liquid spills, ink smears.
   
• Slight worming.
   
• Some ink burn-through in later parts of the manuscript.
   

Extent

[ii]+203+[i]; [ii]+203+[i]

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'A Collection of Liturgical Poems. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 4855.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 25; written lines: 25; Uniform layout. From folio 9r onwards, abbreviation in the upper right corner of each page: בעה (be-ezrat ha-Shem) Catchwords on every page in latter part. Folios marked on versos, in the right-hand upper corners.

Script

Oriental square and semi-cursive script of the 18th century.

Provenance

• M. Marchetta della Bella
   
• A. Sig. Isache Nataf
   
• Acquisition: E.B. Frankel: purchased by the British Museum on 19 January 1895: inscribed, flyleaf [iii]v.
   

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 — פיוטים
• fol. 1r — Piyuṭim