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Or 2414

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Or 2414
Title:
Book of Genesis
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
89 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2414 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Nicolas Mavrocordato
Rashi, 1040-1105
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2414

Book of Genesis

Contents

Genesis, with punctuation and accents, accompanied with masorah magna and parva.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-161v
Title: Bereshit
Title: בראשית
ff. 1r-3r
Title: Maḥberet ha-tigan (fragment)

A fragment of the treatise on accents.

Incipit: בזרקה: וכן המארכה תצמד בטעם לגרמיה. f. 1v
Explicit: זה הוא שראינו לכתבו לפי מדעינו וברוך אדונינו ברוך ייי לעולם אמן אמן. f. 3r
ff. 3v-89v
Title: Genesis
f. 89v
Title: Hafṭarot

Only the beginning of the Hafṭarot of Genesis are preserved, on f. 89v.

Incipit: בעזרת האל הגדול הגבור והנורא אתחיל לכתוב אפטריות זה החומש. f. 89v

Physical Description

Vellum codex of about 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 89 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 300 × 220 mm.
Dimensions (written): 230 × 150 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

10 quires of originally10 leaves each, with some leaves cut off from the 4th, 5th and 8th quire.

End of the quire signed with Hebrew letters at the end, in the left-hand bottom corner of the page and at the right-hand upper corner at the beginning of the quire.

Catchwords are only partially preserved due to mutilation of pages.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 17

Written lines: 17

Uniform layout.

Visible pricking; ruling executed with hard-point on the hair-side of the leaf.

Writing in one column, with masoretic punctuation and masorah magna and parva.

Masorah magna in one line of the upper and of the lower margin, where it sometimes creates a round corner.

The beginning of a weekly section marked by an ornamental פ, and the liturgical subdivisions marked by Hebrew letters in the margins.

Hand(s)

Square Yemenite character, of about 15th century.

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Rashi's commentary given in the margin (semi-cursive writing of 17th century) of folio 29r.

Previous owner's note, 3v: הצעיר שלום בן שלמה הכהןowner יצו.

Mr Nicolas Mavrocordato: purchased by the British Museum from him on 08 October 1881.

1881-10-08

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_2414 (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. 107.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL