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Title:
Pentateuch
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
230 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1100
End Date:
1299
Date Range:
1100-1299
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CE
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Names:
Clarke, Adam, ca. 1762-1832
Rashi, 1040-1105
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Pentateuch

Contents

Summary of Contents: Pentateuch, Hafṭarot and Five Scrolls , accompanied by masorah magna and parva, with masoretic notes and several additional short treatises.

Language(s): Hebrew, Jewish Babalonia Aramaic

ff. 1r-230v
Title: Torah, hafṭarot u-megilot
Title: תורה,הפטרות ומגילות

Marginal pen decorations. f. 215r, 225r

ff. 2r-30v
Title: Genesis

Missing chapter 1:1-25.

ff. 30v-57r
Title: Exodus
ff. 57r-73v
Title: Leviticus
ff. 73v-98r
Title: Numbers
ff. 98r-117v
Title: Deuteronomy
ff. 117v-153r
Title: Hafṭarot
ff. 153r-155r
Title: Song of Songs
ff. 155r-157r
Title: Ruth
ff. 157r-159v
Title: Lamentations
ff. 159v-163v
Title: Ecclesiastes
ff. 163v-169r
Title: Esther
ff. 169r-195v
Title: Psalms
ff. 195v-202r
Title: Proverbs
ff. 202r-213r
Title: Job

Wanting chapter 42:11-17.

ff. 213r-227v
Title: Genesis

Fragment of a different manuscript with Genesis 1:1-12:15, with Targum and Rashi's commentary, partly punctuated. The margin of folio 227r contains the beginning of the Targum of 1Sam. 2:1-10. Written in square and semi-cursive script of the 13th century.

ff. 227v-230v
Title: Varia

A number of short tracts: 1. a short treatise on accents of the 21 prose books, folio 228r; 2. a list of words with sin and shin, folio 228r; 3. an extract from 'Otiyot de-rabi Akivah', folio 228v; 4. a list of majuscular letters in the Bible, folio 228v; 5. a list of small letters in the Bible, folio 228v; 6. rules for writing the scroll of Esther, folio 228v; 7. rules for writing mezuzot and tefilin, folios 228v-230v.

Written in semi-cursive script, in various hands, of the 13th to 14th century.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of 12th to 13th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 230 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 343 × 260 mm.
Dimensions (written): 3 × 31 lines.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

Condition

A few pages mutilated.

Layout

Columns:3

Ruled lines: 32

Written lines: 31

Uniform layout.

Ruled by hard-point on hair-side, last leaves ruled with pencil on each side.

Larger square initial words.

Pentateuch written in three columns, last pages with Targum around the main text.

Masorah magna in two lines at the top and three lines at the bottom of the page.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi script, square for the main text, semi-cursive and partially cursive for targum and commentaries, of 12th to 13th century.

ff. 213r-130v
written in 13th to 14th century Ashkenazi square and semi-cursive script, in various hands.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Bible. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 9403.'

History

Origin: 12th-13th century ; France?

Provenance and Acquisition

Adam Clarke (b. 1762, d. 1832), Wesleyan Methodist minister and scholar. His bookplate with Greek inscription: ho theos agape estin on front flyleaf (ii)v. This codex, together with nine other manuscripts (Add MS 9398-9407) was acquired by the British Museum in 1834, once the property of the Hagen family and then bought for Adam Clarke.

I ()

Contents

Summary of Contents: Pentateuch, Five Scrolls and Hafṭarot with three poetical books, punctuated and accentuated, with masorah magna and parva.

Language(s): Hebrew, Jewish Babalonia Aramaic

ff. 2r-30v
Title: Genesis

Missing chapters 1:1-25.

ff. 30v-57r
Title: Exodus
ff. 57r-73v
Title: Leviticus
ff. 73v-98r
Title: Numbers
ff. 98r-117v
Title: Deuteronomy
ff. 117v-153r
Title: Hafṭarot (partially accompanied with a targum)

Hafṭarot begin with ראש חודש בשבת and end with שמחת תורה.

ff. 153r-155r
Title: Song of Songs
ff. 155r-157r
Title: Ruth
ff. 157r-159v
Title: Lamentations
ff. 159v-163v
Title: Ecclesiastes
ff. 163v-169r
Title: Esther
ff. 169r-195v
Title: Psalms
ff. 195v-202r
Title: Proverbs
ff. 202r-2212v
Title: Job

Missing chapter 42:11-17.

Physical Description

Three columns of 31 written lines to a column. Square Ashkenazi script of 12 or 13th century.
Form: leaf
Material: parchment

Condition

Several leaves are more or less mutilated.

Layout

Columns:3

Ruled lines: 32

Written lines: 31

Three kinds of section distinguished throughout the manuscript: סדורות, סתומות, פתוחות. The letters ס פ are often omitted or placed contrary to the masoretic rules ( f. 109v ).

Masorah magna occupies two lines of the upper margin and three lines of the lower margin.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square script, probably of 12 or 13th century.

History

Origin: 12th-13th century ; Ashkenaz

Provenance

II ()

Contents

Parts of Genesis and Targum written in square and semi-cursive Ashkenazi script, ca.13th century.

ff. 213r-227v
Title: Genesis 1:1-12:15

Hebrew text, partly punctuated, accompanied with Targum and Rashi's Commentary.

Language(s): Hebrew, Aramaic

Physical Description

Form: leaf
Material: parchment
Support:

Condition

First page mostly illegible, faded ink.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square and semi-cursive handwriting, probably of 13th century.

Additions:

Targum of 1Sam. 2:1-10 ('Prayer of Hannah') in a different Ashkenazi hand ( f. 227r ).

History

Origin: 13th century ; Ashkenaz

Provenance

III ()

Contents

Number of shorts tracts in different hands.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 228r-228v
Title: Short treatise on accents of the prose books.
Title: List of words with שׁ and שׂ.
"ימן ושמאל .. מיוסד \ ר' זלמן הנקדן מרוטנבורק. f. 228r "

References

[Ginsburg_1880] 589-590
f. 228v
Title: אותיות דר' עקיבא.
Title: Otiyot de-Rabi ʻAkiva.
Title: Alphabet of Rabi Akiva.
Incipit: את זה דרש ר' אקיבה בן יוסף. f. 228v

Only an extract of the treatise.

f. 228v
Title: Majuscular letters of the Bible.
f. 228v
Title: Masoretic list.
Incipit: זה העתקות מן אותיות הקטנות מהחומש. f. 228v
f. 228v
Title: Rules for writing the Book of Esther.
ff. 228v-230v
Title: Rules for writing mezuzot and tefilin.

Additional Information

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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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. 73
    A Historical and Descriptive Catalogue of the European and Asiatic Manuscripts in the Library of the late Dr. Adam Clarke ... Illustrated by facsimiles of curious illuminations, drawings, &c. By J. B. B. Clarke (London: John Murray), pp. 110-117

Bibliography

    [Ginsburg_1880] Christian D Ginsburg (Christian David). 'The Massorah Compiled from Manuscripts, Alphabetically and Lexically Arranged by C. D. Ginsburg המסורה על פי כתבי יד עתיקים אשר נקבצו ... ביד כריסטיאן דוד גינצבורנ.'London-85, 1880.

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