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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:
210 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1300-1399
Era:
CE
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Names:
Clarke, Adam, ca. 1762-1832
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Add MS 9404

Pentateuch

Contents

Pentateuch, Hafṭarot and Five Scrolls with Targum.

Language(s): Hebrew, Aramaic

ff. 1r-210v
Title: Torah, megilot ṿe-hafṭarot
Title: תורה, מגילות והפטרות

The Pentateuch has Hebrew text and Targum in alternate verses.

Filiation: This manuscript shows affinities in vocalisation with [BL] Add MS 21161 (school of Ben Naftali), see 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. 116. and [Ginsburg_1880] 556.
ff. 1v-45v
Title: Genesis
ff. 45v-83r
Title: Exodus
ff. 83r-108v
Title: Leviticus
ff. 108v-146r
Title: Numbers
ff. 146r-174r
Title: Deuteronomy
ff. 174r-178r
Title: Esther
ff. 178r-179v
Title: Song of Songs
ff. 179v-181r
Title: Ruth
ff. 181r-182v
Title: Lamentations
ff. 182v-186v
Title: Ecclesiastes
ff. 186v-210v
Title: Hafṭarot

Hafṭarot for the whole year. The Hafṭarot for the festivals begin with Rosh ha-shanah and end with the second day of Shavu'ot.

According to George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, no. 81, the following Latin description was written on the back of the front cover, which is no longer extant: ‘Pentateuchus membranaceus in fol. minori cujus versibus singulis subjicitur Targum Onkelos. item quinque Megilloth et Haphtaroth absque Massora. Scriptionis Annus frustra quaeritur; videtur tamen Codex antiquus.’

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 210 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 286 × 222 mm.
Foliation:

210 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end of the manuscript).

Collation

27 quires of mostly 8 leaves.

Some quires marked with catchwords on the last page.

Condition

Several folios are stained.

Layout

Columns:3

Ruled lines: 41

Written lines: 40

Uniform layout.

Leviticus, Esther, Song of Songs and Hafṭarot commence a new leaf.

Initial words of each book written in larger letters.

Masoretic calculations at the end of Genesis and Leviticus.

No Masorah magna or parva, although the ruling for both of them is provided.

Visible pricking and ruling with sharp object on the hair-side of folios.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square script of the 14th centiry.

f. 1, 8 - these two folios are written in a later hand.

Additions:

A standard scribal formula occurs at the end of Exodus (folio 82v) and Leviticus (folio 108v): ‘חזק ונתחזק’.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Pentateuch with Targum. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional Ms. 9404.'

History

Origin: 14th century ; Germany?

Provenance and Acquisition

Adam Clarke (b. 1762, d. 1832), Wesleyan Methodist minister and scholar. 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 of Adam Clarke.

1834

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. 81.

Bibliography

    [BL] BL = British Library shelfmark
    [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.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL