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Or 1457.2

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032-003374491
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Or 1457.2
Title:
Pentateuch scroll
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
12 membranes, 46 columns.
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1457.2 (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 1457.2

Pentateuch scroll

Contents

The Pentateuch scroll.

Language(s): Hebrew

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Title: Sefer Torah
Title: ספר תורה

A fragment only, beginning with Numbers 33:53, and ending with Deuteronomy 34:12.

Physical Description

Leather scroll of the 15th century.
Form: scroll
Material: leather
Support: Red leather
Extent: 12 membranes, 46 columns.
Dimensions (leaf): 587 × 6140 mm.

Collation

16 membranes, with header/wrapper (666mm long).

Condition

Staining and water damage throughout, in patches.

Dirt, mud, accretions, deliberate erasures.

Some dark, contracted edges.

Worming.

Folds.

Some abraded surfaces and delamination.

Ink falking in parts, with losses of text.

Ink offset on verso.

Layout

Columns:46

Ruled lines: 50 51

Written lines: 50 51

Uniform layout.

Ruling by hard point.

Visible pricking and stiching of membranes.

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

No tagin on letters. In some fragments ח is arched.

Special shapes of letters occur: the inverted נ placed before and after Num. 10:35-36, פ' לפוף is frequent.

Columns generally begin with a new verse.

Several instances of majuscular and minuscular letters.

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

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_1457.2 (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. 15.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL