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Or 2349
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- Or 2349
- Title:
- Pentateuch
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- Oriental Manuscripts
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- Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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- Extent:
- 145 folios
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- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2349 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic - Scripts:
- Hebrew
- Start Date:
- 1490
- End Date:
- 1490
- Date Range:
- 1490
- Calendar:
- Seleucid
- Era:
- CE
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Or 2349
Pentateuch
Contents
Summary of Contents: The Pentatuech, with vowel-points and accents, masorah magna and parva. Maḥberet ha-tigan and a treatise on Hebrew letters in Judeo-Arabic are prefixed.Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic
ff. 1r-143vTitle: TorahTitle: תורהLanguage(s): Hebrew, Judeo-ArabicColophon: נכתבה זאת התורה התמימה הטהורה אשר היא לעיני דורשיה מאירה וכשמש מזהירה לחבר הטוב והנעים נטע שעשועים אורי ומחמד עיני אלופי ומיודעי ורביד על גרוני וענק על צוארוני השר הגדול המעוז המגדול דוד ש"צ בן אביחסד רי"ת בן בנימן תנצב"ה בן יוסף נע"ג אלטוילי האל ישימיה עליו סימן טוב וברכה מעתה ועד עולם ויקיים עליו מק' שכת' לא ימ' ספ' הת' הז' מפ' [ומפ'? זר? זרע'? מ?]עת' וע' עולם [אנס?]. ויזכה לכל מדה טובה ולזקנה ושיבה ולשמחת בית השאובה. ולחיי העולם הבא אמן כן יאמר אל נערץ בסוד קדושים רבה אנ"ס. והסופר הקל דוד יש"ל בן בניה זק"ל בן סעדיה רי"ת בן זכריה זצ"ל אלהי' ימחול לי על כל מה ששגיתי וטעיתי והוספתי וגרעתי כדכ' שגיאות מי יבין מנסתרות נקיני. ונשלמה בחדש מרחשון [בשנת? אק?ב.ת ל?]שטרות קץ וסוף לכל הצרות תחלה וראש [ ] [..שורות? אמן?] f. 144rColophon: נשלמה בחדשמרחשון אתת"ב לשטרות. ישע יקרב ששון יערב אמן. f. 145rff. 1v-2rCarpet pages of micrographic masorah.Filiation: Another manuscript due to the same scribe is [BL] Or. 1470 (Margoliouth, no. 722).ff. 2v-23rTitle: Maḥberet ha-tiganff. 23r-29vTitle: A treatise on Hebrew lettersIn Judeo-Arabic (written in Hebrew characters).
References
ff. 29v-58rTitle: Genesisff. 58r-82vTitle: Exodusff. 82v-99vTitle: Leviticusff. 99v-123rTitle: Numbersff. 123r-145vTitle: DeuteronomyPhysical Description
Vellum codex of the 15th century.Form: codexMaterial: parchmentSupport:Extent: 145 foliosDimensions (leaf): 343 × 152 mm.Foliation:145 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 2 unfoliated paper folios at the end of the manuscript).
Collation
14 quires: i12 (folios 1-12), ii10 (folios 13-22), iii6 (folios 23-28), iv-xiii10 (folios 29-137), xiv8 (folios 138-145).
Layout
Columns:2
Ruled lines: 25
Written lines: 25
Four blank lines are found between any two books.
The beginning of each pericope is marked in the margin by a large ornamental letter samekh.
Each pericope is divided into 7 subsections, numbered in Hebrew letters in the margin.
The masorah magna occupies 3 to 5 lines in the upper and 3 to 6 lines in the lower margin.
Numerous masoretic rubrics at the end of each book of the Torah, as well as at the end of the whole Pentateuch.
Hand(s)
Yemenite square script, punctuate, of the 15th century. David ben Benayah ben Sa'adyah ben Zekhariah, inscribed with his name in the colophon on folio 144r.
Decoration
Carpet pages of micrographic masorah
ff. 1v-2rCarpet pages of micrographic masorahAdditions:Binding
Pre-1600 binding. An original leather box binding with decorative brass bosses and corners.
History
Origin: 1490 YemenProvenance and Acquisition
David ben Avihesed ben Benyamin ben Yosef at-Tawili, his name inscribed in the colophon, folio 144r.
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.Availability
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Surrogates
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2349 (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. 90.Bibliography
[BL] BL = British Library shelfmark[Neubauer_1891] Neubauer, Adolf. 'Petite Grammaire Hébraïque Provenant de Yemen, Texte Arabe Publíe d’après Les Manuscrits Connus'. Leipzig: O. Harrassowitz, 1891.Funding of Cataloguing
BL