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Or 2366
Title:
Genesis and Exodus
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
118 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2366 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2366

Genesis and Exodus

Contents

Genesis and Exodus, with simple superlinear punctuation and accents.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-118v
Title: Bereshit u-Shemot
Title: בראשית ושמות

Genesis lacks chapter 1:1-9:17; Exodus lacks 7:11-8:1; 32:7-23; 33:5-34:24; 38:17-40:38.

Between Genesis and Exodus, folios 64v-67r, a later hand (16th or 17th century) has written a list of the weekly sections with the opening words of the seven subsections into which each is divided.

In the present text the subsections are only occasionally noted.

ff. 1r-67v
Title: Genesis
ff. 67v-118v
Title: Exodus

Physical Description

Vellum codex of about 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 118 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 228 × 127 mm.
Foliation:

118 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

24 full quires extant, mostly of 4 leaves.

The manuscript is imperfect at the beginning and at the end, also having several lacunae between various leaves of the extant portion.

Condition

Considerably stained and blurred in parts.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 17

Written lines: 17

Visible pricking; ruling executed with hard-point.

Writing in one column, with superlinear masoretic punctuation.

Hand(s)

Square Yemenite scrupt of about 15th century.

Decoration

Pen-decorations.

Pen-decorated signs marking the beginning of a new pericope.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 23 July 1881: inscribed, [119v] .

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_2366 (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. 108.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL