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Or 1085
Title:
Pentateuch scroll
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
28 membranes, 82 columns.
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1085 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1600-1699
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
J. Noble Coleman
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 1085

Pentateuch scroll

Contents

The Pentateuch scroll.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-2r
Title: Sefer Torah
Title: ספר תורה

The scrolls consists of two fragments, written by two different hands: Exodus 11:8-Numbers 14:8; Numbers 18:28-27:2, with a gap extending from chapter 25:15-26:14.

The Song of Moses, Ex. 15, is preceded by six lines of text and one blank line. The second דרש, Lev. 10:16, is placed at the beginning of the line.

Physical Description

Parchment scroll of the 17th century.
Form: scroll
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 28 membranes, 82 columns.
Dimensions (leaf): 693/890 × 15890 mm.

Collation

28 membranes, with wooden roller (135mm) and leader (817mm).

Condition

Dirt. Oily patches.

Large infills at inner end, lost adhesion.

Severe cockling and pleats obscuring text.

Ink flaking. Carbon ink granular, with losses from damp.

Water-damaged (ink offset to verso from damp).

Small rectangular excisions.

Layout

Columns:82

Ruled lines: 48

Written lines: 48

Uniform layout.

Ruling by hard point.

Visible pricking and stiching.

82 columns in total, one to four columns per membrane.

Three tagin on the letters שעטנזגץ, and one on בדהי. The letter ח is arched throughout, and פ' לפוף is very frequent.

Several instances of majuscular and minuscular letters.

Special shapes of the letters ם, ה, ו, י.

The "puncta extraordinaria" occur in Num. 3:39, 9:10, and 21:30. No inverted nun placed before and after Num. 10:35-36.

Every column begins with a new verse, and the initial letter is always ו, with the exception of Gen. 1:1, 5:1, and 13 other instances.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square script of the 17th century.

Binding

BM in-house. Boxed.

History

Origin: 1600-1699 17th century Germany or Poland?

Provenance and Acquisition

1872-05-25

Bequeathed to the British Museum by Rev. J. Noble Coleman on 25 May 1872: inscribed on verso.

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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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1085 (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. 8.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL