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Record Id:
032-003367291
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Add MS 15283
Title:
Pentateuch
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
265 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_15283 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1475
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1475-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Frederick Madden
Prince Augustus Frederick
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 15283

Pentateuch

Contents

Pentateuch, Hafṭarot and Five Scrolls, provided with punctuation, accents and masorah parva.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-265v
Title: Torah, megilot ṿe-hafṭarot
Title: תורה, מגילות והפטרות

The fullest masorah is given to the Pentateuch; in the Hafṭarot and the Five Scrolls only the קרי is given.

See [Sed-Rajna_1970] 74-75, [Sed-Rajna_1988] 16-17, [BL_2007] 40, [Tahan_2007] 66-67.

5 frontispieces in colours and gold. f. 1r, 48v, 88r, 114v, 152r

f. 242v, 248v, 255r, 258v 4 decorated initial-word panels in colours and gold.

1 embellished panel in colours and gold. f. 245v

1 embellished panel with pen-flourishing, in mauve ink. f. 42r

ff. 2r-48v
Title: Genesis
ff. 48v-88r
Title: Exodus
ff. 88r-114r
Title: Leviticus
ff. 114v-152r
Title: Numbers
ff. 152r-185v
Title: Deuteronomy
ff. 185v-242v
Title: Hafṭarot

Contains Hafṭarot of the weekly sections and of the fasts and feasts.

ff. 242v-245v
Title: Ruth
ff. 245v-248v
Title: Song of Songs
ff. 248v-255r
Title: Ecclesiastes
ff. 255r-258v
Title: Lamentations
ff. 258v-265v
Title: Esther

Physical Description

Parchment codex of late 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 265 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 195 × 140 mm.
Dimensions (written): 120 × 85 mm.
Foliation:

265 folios (+ 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves and an unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the end); folio 1 is a foliated parchment flyleaf.

Collation

33 quires: i-x8 (folios 2-81), xi6 (folios 82-87), xii-xxxii8 (folios 88-255), xxxiii10 (folios 256-265).

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 21

Written lines: 21

Uniform layout.

Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.

Ruled with hard-point.

Folio 185 is a later reconstruction.

Gilt edges.

Hand(s)

Sefardi semi-cursive script, punctuated, of the 15th century.

Additions:

English description of the manuscript (folio 1r).

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Pentateuch, Haphtaroth, and Meghilloth. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional Ms. 15,283.'

History

Origin: 1475-1499 Last quarter of 15th century Portugal, C. (Lisbon)

Provenance and Acquisition

Prince Augustus Frederick (b. 1773, d. 1843), duke of Sussex: his armorial book-plate (inside back cover); his sale 2 August 1844, lot 315: inscribed, back flyleaf (i)v; purchased by the British Museum by Frederick Madden for £37.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_15283 (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. 84.

Bibliography

    [Sed-Rajna_1970] Gabrielle Sed-Rajna. 'Manuscrits Hébreux de Lisbonne. Un Atelier de Copistes et d’enlumineurs Au XVe Siècle.'Paris: Éditions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1970.
    [Sed-Rajna_1988] Gabrielle Sed-Rajna. 'Lisbon Bible, 1482 : British Library Or. 2626 / Introduction by Gabrielle Sed-Rajna.'Tel-Aviv: Nahar-Miskal, 1988.
    [BL_2007] Sacred (Exhibition) (2007 : British Library). 'Sacred : Books of the Three Faiths : Judaism, Christianity, Islam / Edited by John Reeve ; Essays by Karen Armstrong, Everett Fox, F.E. Peters ; Catalogue Contributions by Colin F. Baker ... [et Al.].'London: British Library, 2007.
    [Tahan_2007] Ilana Tahan. 'Hebrew Manuscripts : The Power of Script and Image / Ilana Tahan.'London: British Library, 2007.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL