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Or 5845

Record Id:
032-003312259
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Or 5845
Title:
Pentateuch
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
185 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_5845 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1484
End Date:
1484
Date Range:
1484
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Hebrew
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Avraham ben Yehoshu῾ah ha-Kohen
M. Wachsler
Shelomoh ben Yitsḥaḳ Alṭaras
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 5845

Pentateuch

Contents

The Pentateuch, provided with vowel-points and accents, masorah magna and parva.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-185v
Title: Torah
Title: תורה

Genesis, folio 1v; Exodus, folio 46v; Leviticus, folio 85v; Numbers, folio 113r; Deuteronomy, folio 151r.

The sedarim are indicated by the letter samekh in the margin, and at the beginning of a pericope פרש' is written in the margin.

There are no masoretic rubrics at the end of the books, but after the pericopes the numbers of verses and mnemonic signs are given. The masorah magna usually occupies two lines in the upper and three lines in the lower margin. There are additional masoretic notes in more recent writing on a number of pages (e.g., 36r).

Colophon: אני אברהם בר' יהושע הכהן ס"ט כתבתי ונקדתי אלו חמשה חומשי תורה [...] וכן יהי רצון וסימתיו בעיר שנת אולליא בירח ניסן יום רביעי ה' ימים לחדש שנת חמשת אלפים ומאתים וארבעה וארבעים לבריאת לבריאת העולם וסימנו שם בנימן צעיר ר'ד'ם'. f. 185v

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 185 folios
Dimensions (leaf): [ii]+315+[ii] × 260 mm.
Dimensions (written): 250 × 170 mm.
Foliation:

185 folios (+ 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Quires of 8 leaves each, partially marked with catchwords at the end.

Condition

Usage stains.

Small rodent damage at foot.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 24

Written lines: 24

Uniform layout.

Hard-point ruling.

Flesh side and hair side distinguishable.

Large square initial words.

Hand(s)

Sefardi square script of the 15th century, punctuated. Avraham ben Yehoshu῾ah ha-Kohen: inscribed in the colophon, folio 185v.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Pentateuch with Masorah Magna & Parva. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 5845.'

History

Origin: 1484 Spain

Provenance and Acquisition

Folios 1r, 2r:Shelomoh ben Yitsḥaḳ Alṭaras.

Folio 1r: a partially erased owner's entry.

Folio 185v: an onwership entry and two records of birth, erased.

M. Wachsler: purchased by the British Museum from him 15 October 1900: inscribed, (flyleaf ｢iii｣v).

1900-10-15

Record Sources

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

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_5845 (digital images currently unavailable)

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), no. 1139.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL