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Title:
Pentateuch
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
196 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1375
End Date:
1424
Date Range:
1375-1424
Era:
CE
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Names:
David Yitsḥaḳ Karmi
Giovanni Domenico Carretto
Petri Arrivabeni
Prince Augustus Frederick
Thomas Thorpe
Yitsḥaḳ Kohen ben [ .. .. ] Yoshu῾a Kohen
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Pentateuch

Contents

Pentateuch accompanied by masorah magna and masorah parva.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-196v
Title: Torah
Title: תורה
Language(s): Hebrew

Masorah in the margin written in micrographic form. 18 full-page panels of micrographical design.

ff. 2v-7r-192r-196r

Filiation: Some micrographicial motifs are similar to Harley MS 5774, 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. 121.

See [Pettigrew_1827] XVI-XVII.

ff. 2r-8v
Title: Masoretic lists

Chronology of biblical books from Genesis to Kings.

List of the authors of the biblical books.

Number of verses in the Bible and its parts.

Number of letters in the Torah.

Chronology of the biblical period.

Alphabetical list of the words that occur twice in the Bible but with different meaning.

List of the verses in which all the letters of the alphabet occur.

ff. 8v-53r
Title: Genesis
ff. 53r-92v
Title: Exodus
ff. 92v-119v
Title: Leviticus
ff. 119v-157v
Title: Numbers
ff. 157v-192v
Title: Deuteronomy

Missing chapter 12:17 (in part) to the end.

ff. 192v-196v
Title: Masoretic lists.

List of the words that are read but not written.

List of the passages in which certain words are marked with dots.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of late 14th or early 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 196 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 290 × 215 mm.
Dimensions (written): 180 × 135 mm.
Foliation:

196 folios (+ 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

25 quires: i6, ii-xxiv8, xxv5, numbered at the beginning of each quire.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 25

Written lines: 25

Uniform layout.

Masorah magna often written in the form of figures, animals and patterns; otherwise it occupies three lines in the upper margin and two in the lower margin.

Round the margins of folios 2v-7r and 192r-196r there is an unpunctuated text of parts of Psalms in large square characters

Ruling with hard point on the hair-side of folios, hardly visible.

The beginning of the weekly section is marked by פרש' in the margin. The chapters and subdivisions having been noted by means of Hebrew letters in later writing.

Hand(s)

Sefardi square script of late 14th or early 15th century, with punctuation.

Additions:

Illegible Latin inscription (folio 195v).

Italian inscription: ‘Pentateuco Ebraico ossia li cinque libri di Moise’ (folio 196v).

Binding

Post-1600. Crimson velvet binding.

Boxed.

Spine: 'Pentateuchus Hebraice. M.S. in Membrana. Mus. Brit. Jure Emptionis. 15,306. Plut.'

History

Origin: 1375-1424 Last quarter of the 14th or 1st quarter of the 15th century. Spain

Provenance and Acquisition

Petri Arrivabeni: inscribed with his name: ‘Io petri Arriuabeni’, undated (folio 1r).

David Yitsḥaḳ Karmi: inscribed with his name in an owner’s inscription, undated (folio 2r).

Yitsḥaḳ Kohen ben [ .. .. ] Yoshu῾a Kohen: inscribed with his name in an owner’s inscription (folio 2r).

Giovanni Domenico Carretto, Italian censor (active 1600-1624): inscribed with his name, 1612 (folio 196r); see [Popper_1969] 100-101.

Prince Augustus Frederick (b. 1773, d. 1843), duke of Sussex: his armorial book-plate, inscribed (inner front cover); his sale 13 August 1844, lot 314: inscribed on folio 1r; purchased by the British Museum through Thomas Thorpe for £20.

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. 82.

Bibliography

    [Pettigrew_1827] Thomas Joseph PETTIGREW. 'Bibliotheca Sussexiana. A Descriptive Catalogue, Accompanied by Historical and Biographical Notices, of the Manuscripts and Printed Books Contained in the Library of His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, in Kensington Palace.'London: Longman-39, 1827.
    [Popper_1969] William POPPER. 'The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger.'New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969.

Funding of Cataloguing

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