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Or 1452

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032-003374485
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Or 1452
Title:
Pentateuch scroll
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
63 membranes, 226 columns.
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1452 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
Era:
CE
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 1452

Pentateuch scroll

Contents

The Pentateuch scroll.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-5r
Title: Sefer Torah
Title: ספר תורה

Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy begin with a new column, four lines being left blank at the end of the preceding column. Every column begins with a new verse, and the initial letter is usually ו.

The Song Ha᾿azinu in Deuteronomy 32 written in 71 lines. It is preceded by seven lines, first five with the prescribed initial words, and last two diverging from the rule; followed by six lines of the Song, without blank lines before or after.

The Song of Moses, Exodus 15, written in 31 lines. No blank lines interposed before and after the Song.

Physical Description

Leather scroll of the 15th century.
Form: scroll
Material: leather
Support: Leather
Extent: 63 membranes, 226 columns.
Dimensions (leaf): 610 × 3199 mm.

Collation

63 membranes, with canvas wrapper (720mm long).

Condition

A few usage stains, and some spills from long top edge.

Patches of surface abrasion.

Layout

Columns:226

Ruled lines: 50

Written lines: 50

Uniform layout.

Ruling by hard point.

Visible pricking and stiching.

226 columns in total, three to five columns per membrane.

Three tagin on שעטנזגץ, and also on כךמםפף. The letter ח arched throughout.

Majuscular and minuscular letter in accordance with the rules.

Special shape of the letter פ occurs infrequently.

The "puncta extraordinaria" placed on the words fixed by masorah.

אתנח indicated by a dry point under the word. An upper dry point distinguishes between כל, את, הוא and כל-, את-, הוא-. Four dry points placed sometimes in the margin at the beginning of a section.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square script of the 15th century.

Binding

BM in-house. Boxed.

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

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_1452 (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. 10.

Funding of Cataloguing

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