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Title:
Pentateuch
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
329 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1250
End Date:
1299
Date Range:
1250-1299
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CE
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Names:
Baruch
M. Edwin Tross of Paris
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Add MS 21160

Pentateuch

Contents

Summary of Contents: Pentateuch, Hafṭarot, Five Scrolls and Job, accompanied by Targum Onḳelos and masorah magna and parva (aka 'Yonah Pentateuch').

Language(s): Hebrew, Jewish Babalonia Aramaic

ff. 1r-329v
Title: Torah, hafṭarot u-megilot
Title: תורה, הפטרות ומגילות
Language(s): Hebrew, Aramaic

1 inhabited initial word in ink f. 63v

Numerous micrographical illustrations. f. 180v, 182r, 184r, 187v, 188r, 192v, 194r, 201v, 285r, 292r, 292v, 300v etc.

The Targum Yerushalmi is sometimes quoted in the margins of Targum Onḳelos, e.g. folio 48r (to Genesis 42:21), 49v (to Genesis 43:9), 51r (to Genesis 43:30).

ff. 1v-63v
Title: Genesis

Wanting chapter 1:1-14:10.

ff. 63v-137r
Title: Exodus
ff. 137r-184r
Title: Leviticus
ff. 184r-253v
Title: Numbers
ff. 253v-274r
Title: Deuteronomy

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

ff. 274r-298r
Title: Hafṭarot
ff. 298r-301r
Title: Ruth
ff. 301r-301v
Title: Song of Songs

Missing chapters 1:1 -6:8 (in part).

ff. 301v-308r
Title: Ecclesiastes
ff. 308r-315r
Title: Esther
ff. 315r-318v
Title: Lamentations
ff. 318v-329v
Title: Job

Missing chapters 8:2-10, 31:2 (in part) to the end.

References

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the second half of the 13th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 329 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 387 × 286 mm.
Dimensions (written): 235 × 175 mm.
Foliation:

329 folios (+ 1 unfoliated older paper flyleaf at the beginning and 1 unfoliated older paper flyleaf with unidentified watermark [crowned eagle with spread wings, beneath: H S(?) B] and 2 modern paper flyleaves at the end).

Collation

35 quires: i6 (folios 1-6), ii12 (folios 7-18), iii12 (folios 19-30), iv12 (folios 31-42), v12 (folios 43-54), vi12 (folios 55-66), vii12 (folios 67-78), viii12 (folios 79-90), ix12 (folios 91-102), x12 (folios 103-114), xi12 (folios 115-126), xii10 (folios 127-136), xiii12 (folios 137-148), xiv12 (folios 149-160), xv8 (folios 161-168), xvi12 (folios 169-180), xvii12 (folios 181-192), xviii12 (folios 193-204), xix12 (folios 205-216), xx12 (folios 217-228), xxi12 (folios 229-240), xxii12+1 (folios 241-253), xxiii10 (folios 254-263), xxiv4 (folios 264-267), xxv4 (268-271), xxvi2 (folios 272-273), xxvii10 (folios 274-283), xxviii6 (folios 284-289), xxix8 (folios 290-297), xxx3 (folios 298-300), xxxi10 (folios 301-310), xxxii8 (folios 311-318), xxxiii3 (folios 319-321), xxxiv5 (folios 322-326), xxxv3 (folios 327-329).

Layout

Columns:3

Ruled lines: 31

Written lines: 30

Uniform layout.

The manuscript is defective at the beginning and at the end, with leaves missing after folio 273, 300 and 321.

The beginning of each book is distinguished by the opening word or words being written in large characters.

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

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square script of 13th century; punctuation provided by a different hand. Baruch; the word ברוך is marked on folio 1r.

Punctuation provided by a different hand: מכה עד סופה לא נקדתי מלבד פסוק אחרון אך לא ראשו. f. 293r

Decoration

1 inhabited initial word in ink. Numerous micrographical illustrations.

1 inhabited initial word in ink f. 63v

Numerous micrographical illustrations. f. 180v, 182r, 184r, 187v, 188r, 192v, 194r, 201v, 285r, 292r, 292v, 300v etc.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Biblia Hebraica. Pentateuchus. Haphtaroth. Megilloth V. Iob. Brit. Mus. Add. Or. 21,160.'

History

Origin: 1250-1299 2nd half of the 13th century Germany

Provenance and Acquisition

M. Edwin Tross of Paris: purchased by the British Museum from him on 13 October 1855, inscribed, back flyleaf (i)v.

1855-10-13

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. 75.
    Aaron Freimann, 'Jewish Scribes in Medieval Italy', in Alexander Marx Jubilee Volume (New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1950), pp. 231-342 (no. 48).
    Stanley Ferber, 'Micrography: a Jewish Art Form', Journal of Jewish Art, 3-4 (1977), pp. 12-24 (pp. 18-20).
    Joseph Gutmann, Hebrew Manuscript Painting (New York: Braziller, 1978), p. 22.
    Therese and Mendel Metzger, Jewish Life in the Middle Ages: Illuminated Hebrew Manuscripts of the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Centuries (New York: Alpine Fine Arts Collection, 1982), p. 304.
    Bezalel Narkiss, Kitve-yad Ivriyim metsuyarim (Jerusalem: Keter, 1984), p. 49.
    Gabrielle Sed-Rajna, La Bible hébraïque (Fribourg: Office du Livre, 1987), pp. 135 and 142.
    Sarit Shalev-Eyni, 'Ashkenazi Illuminated Manuscripts in the British Isles' New Letter of the Center for Jewish Art 12 (1996) http://cja.huji.ac.il/NL12-HIMBI.htm (accessed on 17 December 2010).
    Sacred: Books of the Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, Islam (London: British Library, 2007), p. 105 [exhibition catalogue].
    Ilana Tahan, Hebrew Manuscripts: The Power of Script and Image (London, British Library, 2007), p. 132.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL