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Or 1468

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Or 1468
Title:
Genesis and Exodus
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
161 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1400-1599
Era:
CE
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Or 1468

Genesis and Exodus

Contents

Genesis and Exodus, with punctuation and accents, accompanied with masorah magna and parva.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1v-161v
Title: Bereshit u-shemot
Title: בראשית ושמות

In the margins, apart from masorah, there are some midrashic commentaries, see 1v, 11v.

Folios 158r-161v contain some portions of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, but the last two leaves are mutilated, the first two are damaged.

Numerous pen and ink decorated pericope signs. f. 17r, 44v, 52v, 67r

ff. 1v-87r
Title: Genesis
ff. 87r-158r
Title: Exodus

Physical Description

Paper codex of about 15th or 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 161 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 240 × 180 mm.
Dimensions (written): 215 × 115 mm.
Foliation:

161 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end); folios 108-11 and 157 are modern, while folios 158-161 appear to belong to the 14th century.

Collation

16 quires of 10 leaves each, marked by catchwords or signed with Hebrew letters at the end.

The quires are also numbered with Arabic numerals on the left upper corner and Arabic figures and Hebrew letters at the right-hand upper corner at the beginning of the quire.

Condition

Most of the folios are mutilated or damaged, restored later on paper.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 17

Written lines: 17

Visible pricking; ruling executed with mastara.

Writing in one column, with masoretic punctuation and masorah magna and parva.

Masorah magna occupies one line of the upper and of the lower margin.

Catchwords are only partially preserved, due to some mutilation of pages.

There is a lacuna after folio 107.

Each pericope is divided into seven liturgical sections marked by coloured Hebrew letters in the margin.

Each pericope is marked by a coloured ornamental design in the margin.

Hand(s)

Square Yemenite character, of about 15th or 16th century.

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house binding.

History

Origin: 1400-1599 15th-16th century Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Previous owner's note, folio 1r: אשתרא לנפסה מן עין מאלה ולדי יוסף הב"ה יזכהו להגות בו הו וזרעו וזרע זרעו עד סוף כל הדורות ילדי (ואלדי) יסתעירהו ומא ירדה ישכנו נחש ועם יי בשלום. הצעיר שכר ן' שכר סרי.

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_1468 (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. 109.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL