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Or 2365

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032-003375119
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Or 2365
Title:
Pentateuch
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
203 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2365 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1300-1399
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
... ben Yosef
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
Shelomoh
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2365

Pentateuch

Contents

Pentateuch with punctuation, accompanied by masorah magna and masorah parva.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-203v
Title: Torah
Title: תורה
Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 1r-51v
Title: Genesis
ff. 51v-93r
Title: Exodus
ff. 93r-123v
Title: Leviticus
ff. 123v-165v
Title: Numbers
ff. 165v-203v
Title: Deuteronomy

Physical Description

Paper codex of 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 203 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 345 × 250 mm.
Dimensions (written): 215 × 190 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

21 quires: i8-1, ii-xx10, xxi-6.

Catchwords and quire numbering.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 19

Written lines: 19

Uniform layout.

Ruled with mastara.

All books except Leviticus begin a new column.

The beginning of a section marked in the margin by an ornamental pen and ink design, with פ in the centre.

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

The masorah magna in 1-3 lines in the upper and 2-7 lines in the lower margin.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square script of 14th century, with punctuation.

Decoration

Numerous decorated parashah signs, in ink. Masorah magna in micrographical design. Decorated panel for masoretic notes, unfinished, in ink.

Numerous decorated parashah signs, in ink. f. 104r, 114v, 118v

Masorah magna in micrographical design. f. 55v, 113v, 121v, 127v

Decorated panel for masoretic notes, unfinished, in ink. f. 123r

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Pentateuch. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2365.'

History

Origin: 1300-1399 14th century Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Shelomoh: inscribed with his name in a partially illegible Hebrew inscription, undated (fol. 1r).

... ben Yosef: inscribed with his name in a partially erased Hebrew inscription, undated (fol. 1r).

A Judeo-Arabic note (fol. 202v).

2 erased inscriptions in Hebrew characters (fol. 202v).

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 23 July 1881: inscribed, back flyleaf (i)v.

1881-07-23

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_2365 (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. 78.
    Bezalel Narkiss, Illuminations from Hebrew Bibles of Leningrad (Jerusalem: The Bialik Institute, 1990), pp. 74-75.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL