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Detailed record for Oriental 1424
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| Title |
Biblical readings and liturgical poems for Passover |
| Origin |
Spain, N. E. (Catalonia) |
| Date |
3rd quarter of the 14th century |
| Language |
Hebrew |
| Script |
Sephardi square and semi cursive script, partially punctuated |
| Decoration |
10 decorated initial-word panels with gold letters and foliate spreading to the margins sometimes inhabited by animals, birds, human figures, hybrids (ff. 1v, 2, 3v, 4v, 6v, 7v, 8, 9v, 11, 12v) and 3 decorated initial-word panels with gold letters and pen-flourishing (ff. 16v, 19v, 22v). One partial foliate border inhabited by animals and a human figure (f. 1v). |
| Dimensions in mm |
250/255 x 185/190 (150 x 110/115) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 30 (+ 2 paper flyleaves at the beginning, and 1 unfoliated parchment and 10 paper flyleaves at the end) |
| Collation |
7 quires: i4 (ff. 1-4), ii8 (ff. 5-12), iii3 (ff. 13-15), iv8 (ff. 16-23), v4 (ff. 24-27), vi2 (ff. 28-29), vii2 (30-[31]). No catchwords. |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Oriental style, tooled. |
| Provenance |
Inscription in pencil: '129 Mahzorfragment' (f. 1v).
Fischel Hirsch: purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 January 1877. |
| Notes |
The decoration is closely related to the Kaufmann Haggadah, according to Narkiss 1982. |
| Select bibliography |
George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), II, no. 696.
Alexander Scheiber, The Kaufmann Haggadah:? Facsimile Edition of MS 422 of the Kaufmann Collection in the Oriental Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences? (Budapest: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1957).
Bezalel Narkiss, Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts in the British Isles: a Catalogue Raisonne´. The Spanish and Portuguese Manuscripts, 2 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982), I, no. 14; II, figs 246-49.
Ilana Tahan, Hebrew Manuscripts: The Power of Script and Image (London, British Library, 2007), p. 48. |
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f. 1v
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 1v
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 3v
Initial-word panel |
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f. 3v
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 9v
Decorated initial-word panels |
f. 9v
Decorated initial-word panels |
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f. 16v
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 16v
Decorated initial-word panel |
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