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Egerton MS 610

Record Id:
032-003371895
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Format:
TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 610
Title:
Pentateuch scroll
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
75 membranes, 262 columns.
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Egerton_MS_610 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1300-1399
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Francis Henry Egerton
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Egerton MS 610

Pentateuch scroll

Contents

The Pentateuch scroll.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-8r
Title: Sefer Torah
Title: ספר תורה

Physical Description

Leather scroll of the 14th century.
Form: scroll
Material: leather
Support: Leather
Extent: 75 membranes, 262 columns.
Dimensions (leaf): 553 × 4623 mm.

Collation

75 membranes, with wooden rollers. Silk mantle.

Condition

Small surface abrasions, especially over folds, and delamination.

Some pleats and cockling.

Minor water damage; small area of salt accretion and a few stains at edges.

Slight worming at one join.

Mantle damaged and fragile.

Layout

Columns:262

Ruled lines: 42

Written lines: 42

Uniform layout.

Ruling by hard point.

Visible stitching.

262 columns in total, one to five columns per membrane.

The second דרש of Lev. 10:16 is not placed at the beginning of the line.

Three tagin on שעטנזגץ, and one on בדהיק, the letter ח is occasionally arched.

Several instances of majuscular and minuscular letters.

Special shapes of the letter נ, פ and broken ו occur.

The "puncta extraordinaria" placed on the words fixed by masorah, except Gen. 16:5.

Wooden rollers (currently kept in a separate box).

Hand(s)

Sefardi square script of the 14th century.

Binding

BM in-house. Boxed.

History

Origin: 1300-1399 14th century Spain?

Provenance and Acquisition

1829

Bought by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829).

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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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Egerton_MS_610 (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. 2.

Funding of Cataloguing

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