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

Or 7950 A marriage contract.

Title

A marriage contract.

Funders

The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 7950
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

1789

Summary

A marriage contract.

Notes

Damp and cockling.
One small loss at edge and a small tear.
Liquid stains and splashes at foot.
A few tiny losses within text area and a few slight abrasions.

Extent

1 folio; 1 folio

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM in-house.

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 25; written lines: 25; Initial words in larger square characters. Ink frame along the borders of the sheet. Signatures in Latin cursive script under the text. Visible hard-point ruling.

Script

Italian semi-cursive and square script of the 18th century.

Provenance

Acquisition: Sir Charles Hercules Read: presented by him to the British Museum on 14 March 1914: inscribed, folio 1v.

Related resources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

Licenses

Text

These images and the content of British Library Or 7950: A marriage contract. are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

URL

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Text

To the extent possible under law, British Library has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about British Library Or 7950: A marriage contract.. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.

URL

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode

Images

fol. 1r
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fol. 1v
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