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Or 4838

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032-003376319
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Or 4838
Title:
Pentateuch
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
214 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_4838 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1700-1799
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
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Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Rashi, 1040-1105
Rashi, 1040-1105
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 4838

Pentateuch

Contents

Genesis and Exodus with Rashi's commentary,Targum and Sa῾adia's Arabic translation.

Language(s): Hebrew, Jewish Babalonia Aramaic, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-214v
Title: Torah ʿim targum u-ferush Rash"i
Title: תורה עם תרגום ופרוש רש"י
Author: Rashi שלמה בן יצחק (רש"י)

Various marginal notes.

Contains only Genesis and Exodus.

ff. 1v-119r
Title: Genesis
ff. 120r-214v
Title: Exodus

Physical Description

Paper codex of 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 214 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 480 × 210 mm.
Dimensions (written): 270 × 175 mm.
Foliation:

214 folios (+1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and at the end).

Condition

Several pages severely stained or damaged.

Damaged leaves patched with modern paper.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 24 35

Written lines: 24 35

Rashi's commentary written below the main text of the Pentateuch in much smaller characters.

Catchwords on each folio.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square and semi-cursive script of 18th century.

ff. 205v-214v
due to a different, Sefardi hand.

Binding

BM in-house.

History

Origin: 1700-1799 18th century Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

1894-11-14

Morris Heller & Weiss Moses Heller & Weiss: purchased by the British Museum on 14 November 1894, folio [216v].

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_4838 (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. 184.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL