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Or 2451

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Or 2451
Title:
Pentateuch
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
378 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2451 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Persian
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1483
End Date:
1484
Date Range:
1483-1484
Calendar:
Seleucid
Era:
CE
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Names:
Adolf Neubauer
Shemu᾿el ben Aharon ben Yosef
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2451

Pentateuch

Contents

Summary of Contents: The Pentatuech, Hafṭarot and Psalms, with vowel-points and accents, masorah magna and parva, followed by a calendar in Persian.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Persian

ff. 1r-378v
Title: Torah
Title: תורה
Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Persian

Masorah magna and parva accompanies the Pentateuch and Psalms.

The calendar is provided in Persian, but in Hebrew characters.

Colophon: נכתב זה שלשה ספרים חמשה חומשי תורה ואפטרה וספר תילי[ן?] [ב]כח צורי ית' ב"ה. בה' בשבה דהוא תרין יומי ל[חדש?] השלישי [ד]שנת אתשצ"ד לשט' סימן זח"א על יד הצעיר הגולה הדל משרת תורת אל העני שמואל הקטן יאל"ע בן הה"ה רבי אהרן שצב"ה ממקומ"י ביר' כבוד הה"ה המרוחם ר' יהוסף זלה"ה ביר' ה' ר' גרשום תמ"ך נחתם במדינת קום יס"ט וס"י אוי"ר
ff. 361r-361v
Colophon: f. 286r (של הנקדן?) יס"ט וס"י סימניו וטעמיו של ספר הפטרה זה נקדתי ושלמתי בסייעתא דשמיא ית' שמ' בב' בשב' כ"ב באלול שנת אתשצ"ד סימן זח"א לשט' ביד ביפת"ך המקום ב"ה יסלח וימחול שגגי ועוני אוי"ר: תם
Colophon: (של הנקדן?) וסימניו וטעמיו ומוסרות של זה ספר תילין נסתיים בכח צורי וגאליב"ה בתלתה בשבה דהוא עשרין יומין לירח בול דשנת אתשצ"ה לשט' סימן גכמ"ז יס"ט וס"י עלינו. f. 361v

Full-page drawing, in colours. f. 378v

Numerous text pages in decorative frame, in colours. f. 79v, 80r, 113v,114r, 289v, 290r, 360v, 361r

Numerous decorated parashah signs, in black ink.

ff. 1r-62r
Title: Genesis

Missing chapters: 1:1-1:12 and 6:1-11:25.

ff. 62r-114r
Title: Exodus
ff. 114r-149r
Title: Leviticus
ff. 149r-190r
Title: Numbers

Missing chapters: 28:29 to the end.

ff. 190r-214r
Title: Deuteronomy

Missing chapters: 1:1-11:17 and 32:8-to the end.

ff. 214r-289v
Title: Hafṭarot

Imperfect at the beginning.

Colophon without names, 22 Elul 1794 [1483] (folio 286r).

Colophon without names, 1795 [1484] (folio 286v).

ff. 289v-362r
Title: Psalms
ff. 362v-378v
Title: Josiah ben Mevorakh al-ʿAqūlī's calendar

Ff. 363v-375v calendar of the cycles with rules for fixing the Jewish festivals, written in Persian (Hebrew characters); defective.

The arrangement of remainders in this manuscript indicates that at least the calendar section was copied from a Vorlage penned ca. 1330/31. The calendar of remainders here is identical to that in [Oxford_BOD] Heb. e.60, also copied in Qum by Shemu᾿el ben Aharon ben Yosef (see Vidro, pp. 105-106).

Ff. 362v-363r and 376-378 are unconnected to the bulk of this calendar.

Incipit: אחל לכתוב מחזור גדול דולאבי מאמר הר' ר' יאשיהו ביר' מבורך אלעאקולי ירחמהו אל זק"ל f. 363v

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 378 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 175 × 125 mm.
Dimensions (written): 100 × 80 mm.
Foliation:

378 folios (+ 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 older and 2 modern unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).

Collation

Indeterminable. Defective at the beginning and after ff. 6, 189, 213, 163 etc.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 18 20

Written lines: 18 20

Uniform layout.

Number of columns on each page varies from 18 to 20.

Incomplete at the beginning. Some folios were added later (ff. 7-27, 34, 59, 66).

Ruling is visible.

Parallel Hebrew foliation. Catchword on every verso.

Hand(s)

Oriental (Persian) semi-cursive script, punctuated. Shemu᾿el ben Aharon ben Yosef: inscribed with his name in the colophon, 1794 [1483] (361r-361v).

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Pentateuch, Etc. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental Ms. 2451.'

History

Origin: 1483-1484 Persia (Qum?)

Provenance and Acquisition

1882-06-24

Adolf Neubauer (b. 1832, d. 1907), Hebrew scholar born in Hungary: purchased by the British Museum from him on 24 June 1882: inscribed on 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_2451 (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. 92.
    Vidro, Nadia, 'The origins of the 247-year calendar cycle', Aleph 27 (2017), pp. 105-106.

Bibliography

    [Oxford_BOD] 'Oxford, Bodleian Library', n.d.

Funding of Cataloguing

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