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

Title

Poem for Purim.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 5472
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_5472
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Modern Greek (1453-); Hebrew

Origin

Place

Ottoman Empire

Summary

A poem for Purim composed in a dialect of modern Greek, written in the Hebrew characters.

Notes

• Stained.
   
• Isaac Solomon Mazza: his name inscribed in Greek characters: folio 4r.
   

Extent

4 folios; 4 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Poem for Purim. Greek in Hebrew Characters. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Or. 5472.'

Layout

Columns: 1 ; ruled lines: 23 28; written lines: 23 28; Uniform layout. Catchwords on every verso.

Script

Sefardi (Greek?) square script, partly punctuated, of the 17th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: S. Raffalovich: purchased from him on 13 December 1898: inscribed, folio [19v].
   

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 — פיוט
• fol. 1r — Piyuṭ