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Or 1469

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032-003374506
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Or 1469
Title:
Pentateuch
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
212 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1469 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Judeo-Arabic
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1300-1499
Era:
CE
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 1469

Pentateuch

Contents

A large fragment of the Pentateuch, punctuated and accentuated, with masorah magna and parva.

Language(s): Hebrew, Aramaic, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-103v
Title: Torah
Title: תורה
Language(s): Hebrew, Aramaic, Judeo-Arabic

Genesis and Exodus missing entirely.

Leviticus wanting chapters 1-2:3 (in part)

Deuteronomy wanting chapters 32:51 (in part)-34.

Folios 103r-103v contain a fragment of Numbers accompanied by a verse-by-verse translation of Targum Onḳelos and Sa'adyah's Arabic translation. Both text and targum provided with simple superlinear punctuation.

ff. 1r-28r
Title: Leviticus
ff. 28r-68v
Title: Numbers
ff. 68v-102v
Title: Deuteronomy

Physical Description

Vellum codex of probably 14th to 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support: Parchment, with some damaged leaves restored later on paper.
Extent: 212 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 290 × 220 mm.
Dimensions (written): 235 × 155 mm.
Foliation:

103 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 4 leaves each.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 22

Written lines: 22

The writing depends from the ruled line.

Visible pricking.

Ruling with hard-point is visible.

Folio 103 is an addition, written in one column of 28 lines.

Manuscript imperfect at the beginning and at the end.

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

Hand(s)

Yemenite square script with punctutation (folios 1r-102r); Yemenite square script executed with a different hand on folios 103r-103v.

Decoration

Decorated parashah signs.

Decorated parashah signs.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

History

Origin: 1300-1499 14th-15th century Yemen

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_1469 (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. 110.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL