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Or 1467

Record Id:
032-003374537
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Or 1467
Title:
Pentateuch
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
121 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1467 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1000
End Date:
1199
Date Range:
1000-1199
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 1467

Pentateuch

Contents

A large fragment of the Pentateuch with Targum Onḳelos and masorah magna and parva.

Language(s): Hebrew, Aramaic

ff. 1r-121v
Title: Torah
Title: תורה
Language(s): Hebrew, Aramaic

Genesis and Exodus missing entirely.

Sublinear punctuation signs and accents added by a later hand to the original superlinear punctuation.

Short form of critical apparatus, with masorah magna rarely written in the upper margin. In many places both masorah magna and parva differ from the printed version.

Decorated parashah signs. f. 44r

4 coloured borders. f. 117r, 117v, 118r, 118v

Masoretic notes in decorated panel. f. 33r, 78r

Masorah magna in micrographic design. f. 15v, 24v, 33v

Geometric and floral motifs in the margins.

Illustration of the biblical text. f. 43r

ff. 1r-33v
Title: Leviticus
ff. 33v-78r
Title: Numbers
ff. 78r-212v
Title: Deuteronomy

Physical Description

Vellum codex with additional paper folios.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support: Parchment codex with an addition of 11 paper folios at the beginning.
Extent: 121 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 370 × 295 mm.
Dimensions (written): 270 × 240 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Originally 23 quires, of which the first 21 consisted of 10 leaves, the 22nd of 8 leaves, and the last one of 6 leaves. First 11 quires and the beginning of the 12th have been lost.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 27

Written lines: 27

Catchwords and numbering of the quires in Hebrew letters at the left-hand lower corner of the last page, partially preserved. Hardly discernible numbering of the quire at the right-hand upper corner of the first page of the quire.

Vertical lines bounding the text of each column.

The writing depends from the ruled line.

Flesh side and hair side are distinguishable.

Ruling is visible.

First quire (folios 1r-11r) is an addition.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square script with superlinear and ordinary punctutation (

ff. 1r-11v
; Oriental square script with superlinear and ordinary punctuation (
ff. 12r-121v

Binding

BM/BL in-house binding.

Spine: 'Levit.-Deuter. with Targum. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1467.'

History

Origin: 1000-1199 11th or 12th century. Narkiss dates the manuscript to the 14th century (see Narkiss, 1984, p. 25). Persia

Provenance and Acquisition

Persia

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 24 November 1877 (123v).

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_1467 (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. 66.
    Bezalel Narkiss, Kitvei yad ivriyim metzuyarim (Jerusalem: Keter, 1984), pp. 25, 27.
    Bezalel Narkiss, Illuminations from Hebrew Bibles of Leningrad (Jerusalem: The Bialik Institute, 1990), pp. 74-75.
    Ilana Tahan, Hebrew Manuscripts: The Power of Script and Image (London, British Library, 2007), p. 21.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL