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

Title

Parts of Shulkhan arukh.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 6833
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_6833
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

Parts of Shulkhan arukh.

Notes

• Textblock in simple case binding with hollow and tiny squares.
   
• Box binding converted to detached outer case. Spine splitting at joints and tears at headcap.
   
• White accretion on front board.
   
• Usage stains, finger grease in margins.
   
• Two abrasions across foredge.
   
• Portions of a Service Book (Psalms) pasted on one of the end flyleaves.
   

Extent

335 folios; 335 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

Post-1600. Brown leather, blind tooled case, with clasps.

Layout

Columns: 1 2; ruled lines: 15 30; written lines: 15 30; Uniform layout. Larger initial words and chapter titles. Running titles. Catchwords on every page. Visible hard-point ruling. Folio 1 is a title page.

Script

Yemenite semi-cursive script of the 18th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Weiss & Co.: purchased by the British Museum on 11 April 1908: inscribed, folio [337v].
   

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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