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Or 1456

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Or 1456
Title:
Pentateuch scroll
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
75 membranes, 223 columns.
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
Era:
CE
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 1456

Pentateuch scroll

Contents

The Pentateuch scroll.

Language(s): Hebrew

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Title: Sefer Torah
Title: ספר תורה

The scroll is made up of a number of fragments to complete the Pentateuch.

Physical Description

Leather scroll of the 15th century.
Form: scroll
Material: leather
Support: Leather
Extent: 75 membranes, 223 columns.
Dimensions (leaf): 580 × 26003 mm.

Collation

75 membranes, with header/wrapper (761mm).

Condition

Surface accretions, salt, mould, leather bloom, including liquid trickle patterns.

Edge damage and tears, including possible red rot to repair patches.

Paper fragments adhered to verso.

Some pleats obscure text.

Various stains, including damp, glue, candle wax.

Surface abraded in part. Deliberate delamination and removal of surface.

Many splits in sewing.

Ink with white crust in places, partly flaked away.

Layout

Columns:223

Ruled lines: 50

Written lines: 50

Uniform layout.

Ruling by hard point, membrane by membrane.

Visible pricking and stitching.

224 columns in total, one to six columns per membrane.

Some tagin present. The letter ḥet is frequently arched.

Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy begins with a new column, four lines being left at the end of the preceding column.

Every column commences with a new verse, most frequently beginning with the letter ו.

The end of a verse marked by a dry point after the last word (omitted at the end of a section and column).

Three dry points sometimes in the margin at the beginning of an open or closed section.

Special arrangement of lines of the Song of Moses. The first דרש of Lev. 10:16 is written at the beginning of the line.

Puncta extraordinaria placed on the ten words fixed by the masorah.

Majuscular and minuscular letter in accordance with the rules.

The inverted letter nun is placed before and after Num. 10:35-36; 'pe lafuf' is very frequent.

Hand(s)

Oriental square script of the 15th century.

Binding

BM in-house. Boxed.

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century Unknown

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_1456 (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. 14.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL