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

Title

Piyutim

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 5400
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_5400
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

Hebrew religious poetry.

Notes

• Tidemarks and dark stains throughout.
   
• Usage stains and mould-spotting.
   
• Ink mostly dark and haloing.
   
• Some leaves fully laminated. Infills and patches.
   

Extent

142 folios; 142 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Piyyutim. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 5400.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 16; written lines: 16; Uniform layout. Catchwords on every page. Ruled with mastara. Larger square initial words. Hebrew foliation added by a later hand.

Script

Oriental semi-cursive and square scripts of the 16th to 17th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Purchased by the British Museum on 12 July 1898 from S. Raffalovich: inscribed, folio [143v] (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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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — פיוטים
• fol. 1r — Piyutim