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

Title

Commentary on the Book of Psalms.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 4862
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_4862
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

Commentary on Psalms.

Notes

• Slight tidemarks at edges.
   
• Some infills at corners and edges.
   
• Dirt entry at cockled head.
   
• Usage stains, dirty fingerprints, smeared ink.
   
• Ink mostly brown, haloing with some burn-through.
   
• Leather binding slightly rubbed at corners and edges, damaged endcaps .
   

Extent

365 folios; 365 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Notes on the Psalms. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Or. 4862.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 28; written lines: 28; Uniform layout. Visible hard-point ruling. Original Hebrew foliation. Initial words and chapter titles in larger square characters. Page by page catchwords. Marginal additions and notes.

Script

Oriental cursive script of the 18th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: J.L. Hirschensohn: purchased from him by the British Museum on 11 February 1895: inscribed, flyleaf [ii]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 — וזה זכרי
• fol. 1r — Ṿe-zeh zikhri