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Or 1460

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032-003374497
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Or 1460
Title:
Pentateuch scroll
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
48 membranes, 187 columns.
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1460 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1500-1599
Era:
CE
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 1460

Pentateuch scroll

Contents

The Pentateuch scroll.

Language(s): Hebrew

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

Deuteronomy 27:12-31:28 written in a different hand.

The Song of Moses, Exodus 15, arranged in 5 lines.

In Leviticus 10:16 both דרש are written in the middle of the line.

Physical Description

Leather scroll of the 16th century.
Form: scroll
Material: leather
Support: Leather
Extent: 48 membranes, 187 columns.
Dimensions (leaf): 597 × 33370 mm.

Collation

48 membranes, with wrapper/header (642mm long).

Condition

Surface delamination.

Losses and tears.

Edge damage, abrasion.

Old patch repairs sewn on or glued.

Patches of mould/salt accretions. Damp darkening.

Usage stains.

Worming; surface damage suggestive of silverfish.

Pleats and folds.

Layout

Columns:187

Ruled lines: 48 49

Written lines: 48 49

Uniform layout.

Ruling by hard point.

Visible stiching.

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

Three tagin on שעטנזגץ, and one on בדהיחק.

Several majuscular and minuscular letters.

Special shape of the letter ו occurs in Num. 25:12, and inverted נ is placed before and after Num. 10:35-36.

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

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_1460 (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. 18.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL