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Or 1459

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032-003374496
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Or 1459
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:
89 membranes, 268 columns.
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1500-1599
Era:
CE
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 1459

Pentateuch scroll

Contents

The Pentateuch scroll.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-6r
Title: Sefer Torah
Title: ספר תורה

Physical Description

Leather scroll of the 16th century.
Form: scroll
Material: leather
Support: Leather
Extent: 89 membranes, 268 columns.
Dimensions (leaf): 625 × 52410 mm.

Collation

89 membranes, with header/wrapper (813mm).

Condition

Slight tidemark at head. Recurrent damp damage with contractions, losses and a dark brittle margin.

Occasional surface abrasion or delamination, a few deliberate erasures.

A few pleats slightly obscuring text.

Numerous edge tears and wear.

A few old repairs, with losses.

Usage stains, slight mould spots and a few areas with liquid trickles.

Layout

Columns:268

Ruled lines: 45

Written lines: 45

Uniform layout.

Ruling by hard point, membrane by membrane.

Visible pricking and stitching.

268 columns in total, two to four columns per membrane.

Three tagin on the letters שעטנזגץ, and one on the letters בדהחיק.

Numbers 13:1-20 is written in smaller letters.

Special arrangement of lines of the Song of Moses, Ex. 15. The Song Ha'azinu, Deut. 32, is written in 70 lines. The Song is followed by verses 44-47 arranged in seven lines. The first דרש of Lev. 10:16 is written at the end of the line. Puncta extraordinaria placed only on some of the 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 16th century.

Binding

BM in-house. Boxed.

History

Origin: 1500-1599 16th 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_1459 (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. 17.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL