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

Title

Piyuṭim

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 5470
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_5470
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

Religious poetry.

Notes

• Damaged by damp.
   
• Stained.
   
• Wormed at ends.
   
• Repaired and infilled, partially laminated. All edges guarded before rebinding.
   
• Degrading ink.
   
• Folios 100 and 101 mutilated.
   
• The leaf marked 1*** is a fragment cut out from folio 16 of the editio princeps of bYevamot (Venice, 1522).
   
• Some other leaves prefixed to the original manuscript contain poetical compositions, currently mostly illegible.
   

Extent

101 folios; 101 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Religious Poetry. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 5470.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 25; written lines: 25; Non-uniform layout. Original foliation. Some pages left blank. Lacunae after folios 10, 11, and other places.

Script

Oriental semi-cursive script of the 18th to 19th century.

Provenance

• Shelomoh Eli῾ezer ben Yitsḥaḳ Eli῾ezer
   
• Ḥizḳiyah Avraham ben Shelomoh Eli῾ezer
   
• Acquisition: S. Raffalovich: purchased by the British Museum on 13 December 1908: inscribed, folio [102v] (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 — Piyuṭim