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Or 2364
Title:
Pentateuch
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
288 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Judeo-Arabic
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1450
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1450-1499
Era:
CE
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Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2364

Pentateuch

Contents

Summary of Contents: The Pentatuech and Hafṭarot, with vowel-points and accents, masorah magna and parva. Maḥberet ha-tigan is prefixed.

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

ff. 1r-288v
Title: Torah
Title: תורה
Language(s): Hebrew, Jewish Babalonia Aramaic, Judeo-Arabic

Numerous examples of micrographic masorah. f. 73r, 73v,182v, 183r, 183v, 184r

ff. 1r-19v
Title: Maḥberet ha-tigan

Imperfect at the beginning.

ff. 19v-61r
Title: Genesis
ff. 61r-96r
Title: Exodus
ff. 96r-120r
Title: Leviticus
ff. 120r-154v
Title: Numbers
ff. 154v-186v
Title: Deuteronomy
ff. 186v-288v
Title: Hafṭarot

Imperfect at the beginning.

Hafṭarot are accompanied by the Targum provided with the simple superlinear punctuation.

Incipit: בעזרת האל הגדול הגבור והנורא אתחיל לכתוב הפטריות התורה. f. 186v

Physical Description

Paper codex of the second part of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 288 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 300 × 250 mm.
Foliation:

288 folios (+ 1 unfoliated flyleaf at the beginning and 2 unfoliated flyleaves at the end of the manuscript).

Collation

i6; ii12; iii-xviii10; xix7; xx-xxx10; xxxi3.

Some quires are marked with a catchword at the end; several quires signed with Hebrew letters at the beginning and at the end.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 22

Written lines: 22

The beginning of the first few pericopes is marked by the letter samekh in the margin.

Each pericope is divided into 7 sections numbered with Hebrew letters in the margin or in the text itself.

An open section is generally distinguished by a blank line.

Masorah magna usually occupies two lines in the upper and two lines in the lower margin.

In the Hafṭarot the upper and lower margin is occupied by midrashic comments in Hebrew and partly in Arabic (in Hebrew characters).

Hand(s)

Yemenite square and semi-cursive script, punctuated, of the second part of the 15th century.

Decoration

Numerous examples of micrographic masorah.

f. 73r, 73v,182v, 183r, 183v, 184r Numerous examples of micrographic masorah.

Binding

Pre-1600. An original box tooled leather binding (the clasps and spine may be of a later date).

History

Origin: 1450-1499 2nd half of the 15th century Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 23 July 1881: inscribed, back flyleaf (ii)v.

1881-07-23

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_2364 (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. 91.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL