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Or 1379

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032-003313973
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Or 1379
Title:
Pentateuch
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
374 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1379 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1483
End Date:
1484
Date Range:
1483-1484
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Aharon ben Avi Shelomoh ben Yosef ha-Kohen al-ʿIrāqi
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 1379

Pentateuch

Contents

The Pentateuch with vowel-points and accents, masorah magna and parva. Sefer ha-tigan is prefixed.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-374v
Title: Torah
Title: תורה
Colophon: נכתבה זאת התורה אשר היא לעיני דורשיה מאירה וכשמש מזהירה על שם האח הטוב דומה לגן רטוב הא[ ] והנעים נטע שעשועים אברהם ס"צ ביר' סעדיה ש"צ בין עודד רי"ת הידוע אלעז[ירי?]דיה סימן טוב [ ] להגות בו הוא וזרעו וזרע זרעו מעתה ועד עולם ויקיים עליו לא ימוש ספר הת' הז' [ ] בה ... f. 373v

ff. 1v-2r
Psalm 99 written in an ornamental design.

Parts of masorah magna written in the outer margin in a number of short lines, forming a series of ornamental angles.

ff. 1r-33v
Title: Maḥberet ha-tigan

Preceded by Psalm 99 (ff. 1v-2r) written in an ornamental design.

ff. 33v-119r
Title: Genesis
ff. 119r-192r
Title: Exodus
ff. 192r-243r
Title: Leviticus
ff. 243r-313v
Title: Numbers
ff. 313v-374v
Title: Deuteronomy

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 374 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 260 × 203 mm.
Foliation:

374 folios (+ 1 modern unfoliated flyleaf at the beginning and 2 at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 to 12 leaves each.

Condition

Old repairs.

Dirty of carbon from degraded ink.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 17

Written lines: 17

Uniform layout.

Each book begins with a new page.

The beginning of each pericope is marked with a large ornamental letter samekh in the margin. The seven sections are indicated by Hebrew letters.

Masorah magna occupies one line in the upper, one in the lower and one in the outer margin of the page.

Masoretic rubrics at the end of each pericope and each book.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square and semi-cursive script, punctuated, of the 15th century.

f. 143 due to a later hand.

Additions:

Two anonymous notes of previous owners, folio 32v, the second dated 1920 (1609).

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Pentateuch. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1379.'

History

Origin: Date uncertain. ; Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Aharon ben Avi Shelomoh ben Yosef ha-Kohen al-ʿIrāqi: inscribed with his name on f. 1r with the date 437 (1676-1677).

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_1379 (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. 96.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL