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Or 2786

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Or 2786
Title:
Pentateuch
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
256 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2786 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1427
End Date:
1427
Date Range:
1427
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Hebrew
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CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Dr Israel Bak
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2786

Pentateuch

Contents

Summary of Contents: Pentateuch with Hafṭarot and the Five Scrolls, with punctuation and accents. Rashi's commentary on the first three chapters of Genesis.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-256v
Title: Torah, hafṭarot u-megilot
Title: תורה, הפטרות ומגילות
Language(s): Hebrew

The Pentateuch is provided with the Hafṭarah, each parashah or hebdominal section is followed by the corresponding Hafṭarah.

Colophon: חזק ונתחזק הסופר לעול' לא יזק עד שיעל' חמור בסולם וסיימתי ב"[?ה?] אדר ר' בשנת קפ"ז באשי'. f. 256r
ff. 1v-63v
Title: Genesis

Missing chapters: 1:1-21:21

ff. 63v-111r
Title: Exodus
ff. 111r-143v
Title: Leviticus
ff. 143v-184r
Title: Numbers
ff. 184r-220r
Title: Deuteronomy
ff. 220r-223r
Title: Hafṭarot for the four Sabbaths
ff. 223r-226v
Title: Hafṭarot for Passover
ff. 226v-227v
Title: Hafṭarot for Pentecost
ff. 227v-228v
Title: Hafṭarot for the 9th of Av
ff. 228v-230r
Title: Hafṭarot for the New Year
ff. 230r-232r
Title: Hafṭarot for Yom Kipur
ff. 232r-235r
Title: Hafṭarot for Sukot
ff. 235r-241v
Title: Esther
ff. 241v-244r
Title: Song of Songs
ff. 244r-247r
Title: Ruth
ff. 247r-249v
Title: Lamentations
ff. 249v-256v
Title: Ecclesiastes

Physical Description

Vellum codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 256 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 153 × 124 mm.
Dimensions (written): 105 × 67 mm.
Foliation:

256 folios (+1 unfoliated flyleaf at the beginning and 2 unfoliated flyleaves at the end of the manuscript).

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 21 22

Written lines: 20 21

The beginning of each book, and in the Pentateuch and Hafṭarot of each parashah and hafṭarah, is marked by the opening word being written in large ornamental characters.

Four blank lines left blank after the end of each book.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square script of 15th century.

Decoration

Large ornamental initial words at the beginning of each book.

Large ornamental initial words at the beginning of each book.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

History

Origin: 1427 Germany

Provenance and Acquisition

Dr Israel Bak, publisher of Hebrew books in Jerusalem; bought from him by the British Museum on 24 June 1884: inscribed, back flyleaf (i)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_2786 (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. 94.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL