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

Title

A collection of prayers belonging to the Ashkenazi rite.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Royal MS 16 A I
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Royal_MS_16_A_I
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Germany

Summary

A collection of prayers belonging to the Ashkenazi rite.

Notes

• Records of birth, folios 218r-219r.
   

Extent

289 folios; 289 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

Post 1600. Black leather. Boxed. Spine: 'Prayers, Hymns, Etc. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Brit. Mus. Reg. 16 A. I.'

Layout

Columns: 1 ; ruled lines: 14; written lines: 13; Uniform layout. Visible hard-point ruling. Initial words written in larger characters. Hair side and flesh side of the folios indistinguishable. Parts of the text written in red ink.

Script

Ashkenazi square script, punctuated, of the 15th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.
   

Related resources

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

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