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Add MS 4707

Record Id:
032-003353900
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Add MS 4707
Title:
Pentateuch
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
70 membranes, 268 columns.
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_4707 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Da Costa, Solomon, 1690-1769,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/51423844
Da Costa, Solomon, 1690-1769,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/51423844
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 4707

Pentateuch

Contents

The Pentateuch scroll.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-4r
Title: Sefer Torah
Title: ספר תורה

The second derash in Leviticus 10:16 is, contrary to the rule, not placed at the beginning of the line.

Physical Description

Parchment scroll of the 15th century.
Form: scroll
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 70 membranes, 268 columns.
Dimensions (leaf): 463/760 × 3422 mm.

Collation

70 membranes, with wooden rollers.

Condition

Roller handle broken but attached to scroll.

Very occasional stains, wax, etc.

Occasional and slight mould mottling on verso.

Ink flaky in places.

Layout

Columns:268

Ruled lines: 42

Written lines: 42

Uniform layout.

Ruling by hard point.

Visible pricking and stiching.

268 columns in total, three to five columns per membrane.

Three tagin on שעטנזגץ, and one on בדהיק, sometimes also ו and ח (which is occasionally arched).

Several instances of majuscular and minuscular letters.

Special shapes of the letter נ, פ and broken ו occur.

The "puncta extraordinaria" placed on the words fixed by masorah.

Wooden rollers (760mm high).

Hand(s)

Sefardi square script of the 15th century.

Binding

BM in-house. Boxed.

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century Spain?

Provenance and Acquisition

Presented to the British Museum by Solomon da Costa (1690-1769) on 2 June 1759: inscribed on verso, and on the wooden roller.

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=Add_MS_4707 (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. 3.

Funding of Cataloguing

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