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Or 2363

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Or 2363
Title:
Pentateuch with Targum Onḳelos and masorah
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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:
212 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1000
End Date:
1199
Date Range:
1000-1199
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CE
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Names:
Avraham ben Natan
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2363

Pentateuch with Targum Onḳelos and masorah

Contents

Pentateuch with Targum Onḳelos and masorah magna and parva.

Language(s): Hebrew, Jewish Babalonia Aramaic

ff. 1v-212v
Title: Torah
Title: תורה

Main text and Targum, in alternate verses, both provided with the superlinear punctuation.

See [Narkiss_1984] 25, [Narkiss_1989] 74-75, [Kogman-Appel_2004] 46-47.

Filiation: A very striking likeness, especially in puctuation and accentuation, to [BL] Or 1467 (Margoliouth, no. 66). Both of them belong to the same school and were written at about the same time.
ff. 1r-52v
Title: Genesis

Wanting ch. 1:1-2:12 and 30:9-38

ff. 52v-98r
Title: Exodus
ff. 98r-130r
Title: Leviticus
ff. 130r-173r
Title: Numbers
ff. 173r-212v
Title: Deuteronomy

Physical Description

Vellum codex of probably 11-12th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Extent: 212 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 380 × 300 mm.
Dimensions (written): 260/280 × 235/245 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

22 quires, mostly quires of 10 leaves, apart from the last one, which has only 6 leaves.

Quires marked with catchwords on the last page and signed with Hebrew letters on the first and last pages.

Condition

A considerable number of leaves are soiled and mutilated, some of them seriously damaged.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 29

Written lines: 27 29

Ruling is visible.

Erasures (e.g., 47r, 166r, 192r).

Several lacunae.

Masorah magna generally occupies two lines in the lower margin; in the upper margin it varies from three to five lines (due to a later hand).

Each pericope divided into 7 sections, numbered with Hebrew letters in margins.

Indications on weekly readings added with later hand.

Centre-marks for each book of the Pentateuch.

Masoretic summary after the end of the Pentateuch.

Hand(s)

Oriental square script (Persian?) with superlinear punctuation, probably of 11th to 12th century.

Decoration

1 carpet page with micrographic design, in colours. Ten Commandments in 2 decorated panels, in colours. 4 masoretic notes in decorated panels. 6 full borders, in colours. Numerous decorated parashah signs, in colours. Numerous coloured initial words at the beginning of the parashiyot. Numerous modest geometric and floral motifs in the margins, in colours or in brown ink.

1 carpet page with micrographic design, in colours. f. 212v

f. 73v Ten Commandments in 2 decorated panels, in colours.

4 masoretic notes in decorated panels. f. 52v, 98r, 130r, 173r

6 full borders, in colours. f. 67v, 68r, 208r, 208v, 209r, 209v

Numerous decorated parashah signs, in colours. Numerous coloured initial words at the beginning of the parashiyot.

Couloured letters in masoretic notes at the end of each pericope.

Additions:

Numerous modest geometric and floral motifs in the margins, in colours or in brown ink.

The middle word marked on folios 105r, 107v, between the columns.

Binding

BM/BL in-house binding.

Spine: 'Pentateuch with Targum. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2363.'

History

Origin: 1000-1199 11th-12th century Iran or Iraq

Provenance and Acquisition

Avraham ben Natan: inscribed with his name, 212v.

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

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_2363 (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. 65.

Bibliography

    [Narkiss_1984] Bezalel Narkiss. 'Kitve-Yad ʿIvriyim Metsuyarim / Me-et Betsalʾel Narḳis ; Mavo Me-et Sesil Rot ; [ʿIvrit, Daliyah Shaḥaḳ ; ʿarikhah, Daliyah Ṭesler].'Mahad. ʿIvrit ḥadashah u-Metuḳenet.. Yerushalayim: Keter, 1984.
    [Narkiss_1989] Bezalel Narkiss, V. V Stasov (Vladimir Vasilʹevich), and David Günzburg. 'Illuminations from Hebrew Bibles of Leningrad.'Jerusalem: Bialik Institute, 1989.
    [Kogman-Appel_2004] Katrin Kogman-Appel. 'Jewish Book Art between Islam and Christianity : The Decoration of Hebrew Bibles in Medieval Spain / by Katrin Kogman-Appel ; Translated by Judith Davidson.'Leiden ; Boston: Brill, 2004.
    [BL] BL = British Library shelfmark

Funding of Cataloguing

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