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Or 2286

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Or 2286
Title:
Pentateuch
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
144 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1450
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1450-1499
Era:
CE
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Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
Moshe (ben Ya῾aḳov) Zabarah
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2286

Pentateuch

Contents

Summary of Contents: Pentateuch, Hafṭarot, and parts of the Five Scrolls, with punctuation and accents, provided with masorah magna and parva.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-144v
Title: Torah, hafṭarot u-megilot
Title: תורה, הפטרות ומגילות
Language(s): Hebrew

Esther and Lamentations are now missing from the Five Scrolls.

Filiation: Cf. [Oxford_BOD] Kennicott 1 and [Sassoon_1932] 1209 for the manuscripts of the same scribe.
Colophon: ספרא רבה בישראל גדול שמו הרב הקדוש שמו נודע בישראל להלל' אדונינו כמורר ה"ר משה זאברה זיע"א אשרי איש יחזיק בזה הספר ויהיה בבית גנזיו והיתה לבני ישראל למשמרת לצרתם להגיה ממנו ספר תורת משה ע"ה וזכות הרב תגן עליו ועל זרעו אכי"ר. f. 103v
ff. 1r-19v
Title: Genesis

Missing chapters: 1:1-21:21

ff. 19v-43v
Title: Exodus
ff. 43v-60r
Title: Leviticus
ff. 60r-82v
Title: Numbers
ff. 82v-104v
Title: Deuteronomy
ff. 104v-137v
Title: Hafṭarot of the weekly sections, feast and fasts.
ff. 137v-139r
Title: Ruth
ff. 139r-141r
Title: Song of Songs
ff. 141r-144v
Title: Ecclesiastes

Wanting a few words at the end.

Physical Description

Vellum codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 144 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 438 × 324 mm.
Dimensions (written): 345 × 210 mm.
Foliation:

144 folios (+ 2 unfoliated flyleaves at the beginning and 3 unfoliated flyleaves at the end of the manuscript).

Collation

Originally 14 quires, each of 12 leaves. Currently the first, parts of the second and fourteenth quires are missing.

Quires are marked by Hebrew letters on the last page, as well as by Hebrew signatures at the beginning, of which only few have been preserved.

Condition

Several stained pages, some being also a little damaged.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 20

Written lines: 20

Uniform layout.

Four blank lines between the books of the Pentateuch and also between the Five Scrolls.

Masorah magna on the Pentateuch and the Scrolls generally in two lines of the upper and three lines of the lower margin.

The weekly sections marked with פרש' in the margin, a continuous enumeration of 54 sections being added in Hebrew letters.

The commandments written in the margin or between the column where they respectively appear.

No pricking currently visible. Ruling with hard point on the hair-side of folios.

Hand(s)

Sefardi square scrip of the 15th century. Moshe (ben Ya῾aḳov) Zabarah, his name inscribed with another hand on folio 103v: ספרא רבא בישראל גדול שמו הרב הקדוש שמו נודע בישראל להלל' אדונינו כמוהרר משה זאברה זיע"א אשרי איש יחזיק בזה הספר ויהיה בבית גנזיו והיתה לבני ישראל למשמרת לדרתם' להגיה ממנו' ספר תורה משה ע"ה: וזכות הרב תגן עליו ועל זרעו אכי"ר.

Binding

BM/BL in-house binding.

History

Origin: 1450-1499 15th century Spain?

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 09 November 1880: inscribed, back flyleaf (ii)v.

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_2286 (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. 87.

Bibliography

    [Oxford_BOD] 'Oxford, Bodleian Library', n.d.
    [Sassoon_1932] David Solomon SASSOON. 'Ohel Dawid. Descriptive Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the Sassoon Library, London. Compiled by D. S. Sassoon ... With Seventy-Three Facsimiles.'London: Oxford University Press, 1932.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL