Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Hebrew MS 38
- Source
- Manchester Digital Collections
- Library
- The John Rylands Library
- Shelfmark
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- Hebrew MS 38
- Biblissima authority file
- Language
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- Hebrew
- Title
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- Psalms 45:16-78:46 (תהלים)
- Agent
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- Preferred form
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- Enriqueta Augustina Rylands (1843-1908)
- Role
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- Former owner
- Original form
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- Enriqueta Rylands
- Biblissima authority file
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- Description
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- Extent:
24 ff. (ii+24+ii) Leaf height: 145 mm, width: 155 mm. Written height: 110 mm, width: 115 mm.
Binding:
Green modern fake leather binding, with gold-tooled lettering on spine reading "PSALTERIUM HEBRAICE. FRAG.".
Acquisition:
Acquired by Enriqueta Rylands and later bequeathed to the The John Rylands Library.
Layout:
Long line with 12 written lines. Poetic spacing. Hard point ruling and pricking visible.
Script:
Sephardi square script.
Data Source(s):
Description based on Alexander Samely's unpublished draft catalogue, revised and expanded by Stefania Silvestri and Renate Smithuis.
Subject(s):
Bible. Old Testament--Versions, Jewish
Abstract:
This small square-shaped manuscript contains a section from the Hebrew Bible, i.e. Psalms 45:16-78:46 (the latter verse is the last one sufficiently legible on folio 24b, see line 8).
Foliation:
Modern pencil foliation in Arabic numerals at the top outer corner of side a of each folio.
Format:
Codex
Material:
Parchment
Provenance:
Paper label on spine reading: "HEBREW 38."
Back paste-down: Handwritten notes in three different hands reading "R39682.", "Hebrew MSS. / No. 38" and "Psalms 14/15th cent. Spain".
Condition:
Several pages repaired with transparent paper. Iron-gall ink damage. Stains. Irregular corners.
Note(s):
Tiberian vocalisation and cantillation signs. The Psalms are numbered in the margin using Hebrew alphanumerical notation. The text after Psalm 78:46 is not immediately recognisable as belonging to the rest of the Psalm.
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- Rights
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