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Or 1041

Record Id:
032-003376477
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-003376477
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TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
Or 1041
Title:
Pentateuch
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
188 folios
Digitised Content:
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1041 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1300-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Abraham ibn Yosef al-Aḥmar 
Adolf Neubauer
Da'ud ibn Yosef al-Aḥmar
G'aramah ibn Sa'alam
Sa'adia ben Joseph, Gaon, 882-942,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/95159227
Saliman ibn Yaḥyah
Shelomoh ben Yosef ben Ṣalaḥ
Yosef ben Shelomoh Ṣalaḥ
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 1041

Pentateuch

Contents

Summary of Contents: The Pentateuch in Sa'adia Gaon's translation.

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew

ff. 1r-188v
Title: Torah
Title: תורה
Language(s): Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew
ff. 1v-49r
Title: Genesis
ff. 49r-89r
Title: Exodus
ff. 89r-117r
Title: Leviticus
ff. 117r-153r
Title: Numbers
ff. 153r-188v
Title: Deuteronomy

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 14th to 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 188 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 273 × 193 mm.
Foliation:

188 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and at the end of the codex).

Collation

Quires of 10 leaves each, numbered with Hebrew letters both at the beginning and at the end of the quire.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 22

Written lines: 22

Uniform layout.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square script of the 14th to 15th century.

ff. 185-187
and f. 10 are modern.

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

History

Origin: 1300-1499 14th-15th century Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Shelomoh ben Yosef ben Ṣalaḥ, his inscription on folio 49r.

G'aramah ibn Sa'alam, his inscription on folio 118v.

Yosef ben Shelomoh Ṣalaḥ owner, his name inscribed on 187r.

Saliman ibn Yaḥyah, his name inscribed on 188v.

Abraham ibn Yosef al-Aḥmar  and Da'ud ibn Yosef al-Aḥmar, mentioned as owners in a record of sale, 18 Nisan 1920 (1609), folio 89r.

Adolf Neubauer (b. 1832, d. 1907), Hebrew scholar born in Hungary: purchased by the British Museum from him on 06 October 1870: 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_1041 (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. 100.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL