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Title:
Pentateuch
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
297 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1286
End Date:
1286
Date Range:
1286
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Hebrew
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CE
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Names:
Binyamin bar Yo᾿el
Clarke, Adam, ca. 1762-1832
John van der Hagen
Wolf Leib
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Add MS 9401

Pentateuch

Contents

Pentateuch with Hafṭarot and the Five Scrolls.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-297v
Title: Torah, hafṭarot u-megilot
Title: תורה, הפטרות ומגילות

This is the first of two uniform volumes, the second being Ms Add 9402 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. 70..

The first volume contains the Pentateuch, Five Scrolls and Hafṭarot.

The book of Ecclesiastes lacks chapters 9:10-12:14.

At the end of the Hafṭarot, folios 296v-297r, there is Hosea 14:2-Joel 2:27, in a different hand.

f. 2v The Ten Commandments table in a colour-decorated panel - later addition.

ff. 3r-56r
Title: Genesis
ff. 56r-99v
Title: Exodus
ff. 100r-131v
Title: Leviticus
ff. 132r-175v
Title: Numbers
ff. 176r-213v
Title: Deuteronomy
ff. 214r-217v
Title: Song of Songs
ff. 217v-221r
Title: Ruth
ff. 221r-226v
Title: Ecclesiastes
ff. 227r-297r
Title: Esther

Physical Description

Parchment codex of 13th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 297 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 386 × 304 mm.
Foliation:

297 folios (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end of the manuscript).

Collation

38 quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

Quires marked with catchwords on the last page.

Condition

Lacuna of ca. 6 leaves after folio 226.

Layout

Columns:3

Ruled lines: 26

Written lines: 25

Uniform layout.

Visible pricking and ruling with hard-point.

Main text in three columns, with superlinear masoretic punctuation and accents.

Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Song of Songs and Haftarot open a new leaf.

Initial word of each book in large ornamental characters.

Beginning of a new pericope in Pentateuch indicated by three letters פ and by the first word written in larger characters.

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

A number of masoretic rubrics at the end of the books.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square script of the 13th century.

f. 2, 4, 7, 9 due to later hands.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Bible. Hebrew. Vol. I. Brit. Mus. Additional 9401.'

History

Origin: 1286 Germany

Provenance and Acquisition

Wolf Leib: inscribed with his name in volume 2, folio 228v, dated 5378 (1588).

Binyamin bar Yo᾿el: inscribed with his name, in red ink, on folio 229r in volume 2.

John van der Hagen; a dedication in a from of a Hebrew poem by Christian Meir in volume 2, folio  2v, dated in Amsterdam, 1726.

Adam Clarke (b. 1762, d. 1832), Wesleyan Methodist minister and scholar. His bookplate with Greek inscription: ‘ho theos agape estin ’(folio [i verso]). This codex, together with nine other manuscripts (Additional 9398-9407), was acquired by the British Museum in 1834, once the property of the Hagen family and then bought from Adam Clarke.

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. 70.
    [Clarke_1835] 110-117

Bibliography

    [Clarke_1835] Clarke, Adam. 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. London: John Murray, 1835.

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