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Or 1458
- Record Id:
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- Format:
- TEI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 1458
- Title:
- Pentateuch scroll
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 65 membranes, 227 columns.
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- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1458 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Hebrew
- Scripts:
- Hebrew
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 1400-1499
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Or 1458
Pentateuch scroll
Contents
The Pentateuch scroll.
Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 1r-4rTitle: Sefer TorahTitle: ספר תורהThe Pentateuch, with the following fragments written by different hands: Ex. 35:14-Lev. 3:14; Num. 4:32-7:59; 7:60-9:21; 9:22-14:16; 14:17-16:12; 16:13-21:8; 21:9-22:26; 26:14-31:37.
Physical Description
Leather scroll of the 15th century.Form: scrollMaterial: leatherSupport: LeatherExtent: 65 membranes, 227 columns.Dimensions (leaf): 637 × 31970 mm.Collation
65 membranes, with header/wrapper (854mm).
Condition
Worming in several phases (repairs wormed in different pattern), grazed surface.
Surface delamination, deliberate erasures.
Weak edges with tears and losses, a few parts folded under.
Creases from rolling.
Inks slightly flaking. Some ink spills.
Pleat covering text.
Soil accretions.
Occasional contracted areas at edge with dark, brittle, flaking surface.
Usage and damp stains.
Layout
Columns:227
Ruled lines: 50
Written lines: 50
Uniform layout.
Ruling by hard point, membrane by membrane.
Visible pricking and stitching.
227 columns in total, one to six columns per membrane.
Few tagin present.
Four lines left blank between the end of a book and the beginning of another. Leviticus begins with a new column.
Every column commences with a new verse, most frequently beginning with the letter ו.
The end of a verse not marked, but the position of Ethnah is marked by a black point.
Three black points generally placed in the right margin at the beginning of an open or closed section. Sometimes these points appear at the end of a section to indicate the beginning of a verse.
Special arrangement of lines of the Song of Moses, Ex. 15. The Song Ha'azinu, Deut. 32, is written in 67 lines. The first דרש of Lev. 10:16 is written at the end of the line. Puncta extraordinaria placed on the ten words fixed by the masorah.
Majuscular and minuscular letters occur.
The inverted letter nun is placed before and after Num. 10:35-36.
Hand(s)
Oriental square script of the 15th century.
Binding
BM in-house. Boxed.
History
Origin: 1400-1499 15th century UnknownProvenance and Acquisition
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.Availability
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Surrogates
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1458 (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. 16.Funding of Cataloguing
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