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Or 2350
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- Format:
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- Or 2350
- Title:
- Pentateuch
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- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 411 folios
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- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2350 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic - Scripts:
- Hebrew
- Start Date:
- 1408
- End Date:
- 1409
- Date Range:
- 1408-1409
- Calendar:
- Seleucid
- Era:
- CE
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Or 2350
Pentateuch
Contents
Summary of Contents: The Pentateuch and Hafṭarot, with vowel-points and accents, masorah magna and parva. Mahberet ha-tigan is prefixed.Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic
ff. 1r-411vTitle: TorahTitle: תורהLanguage(s): Hebrew, Judeo-ArabicColophon: f. 305r נכתבה זאת התורה אשר היא לעיני דורשיה מאירה לכג"ק צפירת תפארת הזקן זקן תורה הנכבד האהוב והנחמד השר הגדול המעוז המגדול החכם הנבון המשכיל התחכמון מר' עזרא ביר' כג"ק שלום נע"ג בר כג"ק זכריה נב"ת ביר' כג"ק גד ביר' כג"ק משלם זלל"ה ביר' כג"ק חטר אלחבישי המקום ישימיה עליו ועל בנו שלום סימן טוב ויזכהו להגות בה הוא וזרעו וזרע זרעו מעתה ועד עולם ויקיים עליו לא ימוש ספר התורה הזה מפיך וכ' ויזכה ללמוד וללמד לשמור לעשות את כל דברי התורה הזאת באהבה ויזכהו לזקנ[?ה?] ושיבה ולכל מדה טובה ולשמחת בית השאובה ולחיי העולם הבא כן יאמר אל נערץ בסוד קדושים רבה אנ"ס כתבתי והגהתי ונקדתי ודקדקתי כמו שהעתיקו הסופרים איש מפי איש כיד אלהי הטובה עלי אני משה בן עמרם אבן נצר רי"ת הידוע מן קאימת אבן חביש שנת אתש"כ לשטרות קוץ <!> וסוף לכל הצרות תחלה וראש לכל הבשרות אנ"ס.ff. 306v-307rTwo illuminated carpet pages.ff. 38v-39rMasorah in micrographic designs.The date of the manuscript is repeated on folio 154v, in the second line of the masorah magna.
ff. 1r-40vTitle: Maḥberet ha-tiganff. 40v-105vTitle: Genesisff. 105v-160vTitle: Exodusff. 160v-200rTitle: Leviticusff. 200r-255vTitle: Numbersff. 255v-310vTitle: Deuteronomyff. 310v-411vTitle: HafṭarotImperfect at the end.
Hafṭarot are preceded by two illuminated pages, f. 306v, 307r , and the bededictions to say before and after the reading of the Hafṭarah,
ff. 309v-310r, written 16th century, provided with superlinear punctuation.Physical Description
Paper codex of the 15th century.Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport:Extent: 411 foliosDimensions (leaf): 330 × 230 mm.Foliation:411 folios (+2 unfoliated flyleaves at the beginning and at the ned of the manuscript).
Collation
Originally 41 quires of 10 leaves.
A number of lacunas in the first 4 and the last 10 quires. The first quire is defective.
Folios 1-37 contain 4 quires signed with Hebrew letters on the first page; folios 38-307 have 27 quires signed with Hebrew letters on first page; folios 308-410 contain more than 10 quires signed with Hebrew letters on the first and the last page.
Layout
Columns:1
Ruled lines: 17
Written lines: 17
Imperfect at the beginning and at the end.
Uniform layout.
Hand(s)
Yemenite square and semi-cursive script, punctuated, of the 15th century. Mosheh ben ῾Amram ibn Naṣr ben ῾Ezra ibn Ḥābish; inscribed with his name in the colophon, 305r and on folios 54r, 240r:אנא ספרא משה בן עמרם בן עזרא, (כתבתי זאת התורה ואני בן שבע ושלושים שנה).
Decoration
Two full-page illuminated borders. Masorah in micrographic designs.
Two illuminated carpet pages
ff. 306v-307rMasorah in micrographic designs.
ff. 38r-39rAdditions:Binding
BM/BL in-house binding.
History
Origin: 1408-1409 YemenProvenance and Acquisition
Ezra ben Shalom ben Zekhariah ben Gad ben Meshulam ben Ḥātar Al-Ḥābishi; inscribed in the colophon, folio 305r.
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_2350 (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. 88.Funding of Cataloguing
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