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Or 2348

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Or 2348
Title:
Pentateuch
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
158 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2348 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1469
End Date:
1469
Date Range:
1469
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Names:
Avraham ben Yosef
Benayah ben Se῾adia ben Zekharyah ben Margaz
Benyamin ben Avraham
Ha-Kohen David ben Yosef
Ibrahim ibn Yusuf ibn Sa῾id ibn Ibrahim al-Israili
Nic. Mavrocordato
Sala'am ben Yosef ben Avraham
Yosef ben Se῾adia
Yosef ben Suliman/Solomon
Yudah ben Se῾adia
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2348

Pentateuch

Contents

The Pentateuch, with masorah magna, parva, vowel-points and accents. Maḥberet ha-tigan is prefixed.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-158v
Title: Torah
Title: תורה
Language(s): Hebrew
Colophon: כאן אלפראג להדא אלכתאב אלמובארך פי שהר צפר [...] מן סנת ארבע וסבעין ותמאן מיה. f. 154v
Colophon: מלך אבראהים אבן יוסף אבן סעיד [אבן] אבראהים אלאישראילי. f. 155r

The colophon is written in ornamental frame in Arabic caligraphic characters.

4 carpet pages in colours. f. 38v, 39r, 154v, 155r

Micrographical designs in the margins. f. 76r, 76v, 88r, 88v

3 pages decorated with medallions filled with geometrical design in colours and micrography between the two columns of text. f. 151v, 152r, 152v

ff. 1v-39v
Title: Maḥberet ha-tigan
ff. 39v-68r
Title: Genesis
ff. 68r-92v
Title: Exodus
ff. 92v-109v
Title: Leviticus
ff. 109v-133r
Title: Numbers
ff. 133r-154v
Title: Deuteronomy

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 158 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 400 × 280 mm.
Dimensions (written): 300 × 215 mm.
Foliation:

158 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Too tight bound to determine exact gathering structure.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 25

Written lines: 25

The beginning of each pericope is marked in the margin by a large ornamental ס.

Each pericope is divided into 7 sections numbered with Hebrew letters in colours in the margin.

The numbers of the commandments are written in red ink in the margins.

The masorah magna occupies two lines in the upper and three lines in the lower margin.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square script, partially punctuated, of the 15th century. The scribe's name, Benayah ben Se῾adia ben Zekharyah ben Margaz, is not mentioned in the colophon. On his identification see Ettinghausen 1964, p. 33.

Additions:

Erased inscription in Hebrew characters (f. 154r).

Erased inscription with Hebrew characters (f. 158v).

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine title: 'Pentateuch. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2348.'

History

Origin: 1469 Yemen (Sanaʿa)

Provenance and Acquisition

Ibrahim ibn Yusuf ibn Sa῾id ibn Ibrahim al-Israili (Hebrew version of his name in Or 2211): inscribed with his name in the colophon, Sana, 1469 (ff. 154v-155r).

Yosef ben Suliman/Solomon: inscribed with his name in two purchase notes (f. 37v).

Benyamin ben Avraham: inscribed with his name in two purchase notes (f. 37v).

Avraham ben Yosef ben Sa῾id Hanatsel owner: inscribed with his name in a purchase note, Adar .. .. [year is deleted] according to the Seleucid era (f. 38r).

Sala'am ben Yosef ben Avraham: inscribed with his name in a purchase note, Adar .. .. [year is deleted] according to the Seleucid era (f. 38r).

Ha-Kohen David ben Yosef: inscribed with his name in a purchase note, Adar .. .. [year is deleted] according to the Seleucid era (f. 38r).

Yosef ben Se῾adia: inscribed with his name in a purchase note, Adar .. .. [year is deleted] according to the Seleucid era (f. 38r).

Avraham ben Yosef: inscribed with his name in a purchase note, Adar .. .. [year is deleted] according to the Seleucid era (f. 38r).

Mr Nic. Mavrocordato: purchased by the British Museum from him on 28 May 1881: inscribed, back flyleaf (i)v.

Yudah ben Se῾adia.. ..: inscribed with his name in the margin (f. 156v).

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_2348 (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. 89.
    Richard Ettinghausen, 'Yemenite Bible Manuscripts of the XVth Century', L. A. Mayer Memorial Volume, Eretz-Israel, 7 (1964), 32-39 (p. 33).
    Stanley Ferber, 'Micrography: a Jewish Art Form', Journal of Jewish Art, 3-4 (1977), pp. 12-24 (pp. 15-18).
    Joseph Gutmann, Hebrew Manuscript Painting (New York: Braziller, 1978), pp. 40-43.
    Bezalel Narkiss, Kitvei yad ivriyim metzuyarim (Jerusalem: Keter, 1984), pp. 23, 74-75.
    Ilana Tahan, Hebrew Manuscripts: The Power of Script and Image (London, British Library, 2007), pp. 22-27.
    Sacred: Books of the Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, Islam (London: British Library, 2007), p. 138 [exhibition catalogue].

Funding of Cataloguing

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