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Or 1098

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032-003376483
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Or 1098
Title:
Keter Torah by Aharon ben Eliyahu
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
367 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1098 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1592
End Date:
1592
Date Range:
1592
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Hebrew
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CE
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Names:
Aaron ben Elijah, 1328-1369
Aaron ben Elijah, 1328-1369
Eliyahu ben Shelomoh
Ḳerapula (?) bat Benyamin
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Or 1098

Keter Torah by Aharon ben Eliyahu

Contents

A commentary on the Pentateuch.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-367v
Title: Keter Torah
Title: כתר תורה
Author: Aharon ben Eliyahu, approximately 1328-1369 אהרן בן אליהו, מניקומדיה
Colophon: והיתה השלמת זה הספר ב יום ו' כ"ט למנחם ה'ש'נ'ב' ליצירה פה בכפר קרמרייא ב'נ'ל'ך' ו'א'ע'י'. f. 367v
ff. 5v-92v
Title: Genesis
ff. 92v-210r
Title: Exodus
ff. 210r-282r
Title: Leviticus
ff. 282r-328r
Title: Numbers
ff. 328r-367v
Title: Deuteronomy

References

[Keter_Torah_1866]

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 367 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 285 × 205 mm.
Dimensions (written): 210 × 135/140 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Originally quires of 10 leaves each.

The Hebrew foliation partially cut away.

Condition

Last 20 pages partially stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 31

Written lines: 31

Running title on each recto.

Visible ruling with a hard-point.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive script of the 16th century.

Additions:

Folio 1r - a doodle-page.

Folio [ii recto] (modern paper flyleaf) contains a Hebrew description of the contents of this volume. A German description of the manuscript from Moritz Steinschneider's catalogue is glued to folio [ii verso].

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine title: 'Aaron ben Elijah, Kether Torah, Hebrew, Brit. Mus. Oriental 1098.'

History

Origin: 1592 Kramariya near Constantinople (Turkey)

Provenance and Acquisition

A note of sale, recordingEliyahu ben Shelomoh and Ḳerapula (?) bat Benyamin, folio 1r.

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_1098 (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. 320.

Bibliography

    [Keter_Torah_1866] אליהו, 1328?-1369 אהרן בהר׳׳ר, and 1328?-1369 Aaron ben Elijah. 'Sefer Keter Torah : Ṿe-Hu Perush ʿal Ha-Torah / Yatsa Le-or ʿal Yede Yehudah b.k.m. Yitsḥaḳ Saṿsḳan.'גוזלװא: יסאװסקאן-1867, בדפוס אשפירקוויץ, Gozlṿa Yevpatoria, 1866.

Funding of Cataloguing

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