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Or 14054

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Or 14054
Title:
Pentateuch with Hafṭarot and Five Scrolls
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
287 folios (i+287+ii)
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
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CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
David Solomon Sassoon
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 14054

Pentateuch with Hafṭarot and Five Scrolls

Contents

Pentateuch with Hafṭarot and Five Scrolls.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 2r-273v
Title: תורה, הפטרות ומגילות
Title: Torah, Hafṭarot u-Megilot

Colophon:
ff. 5v-52r
Title: Genesis
ff. 52v-92r
Title: Exodus
ff. 92v-121r
Title: Leviticus
ff. 121r-162v
Title: Numbers
ff. 162v-200r
Title: Deuteronomy
ff. 200v-263r
Title: Hafṭarot
ff. 263v-265v
Title: Ruth
ff. 265v-269r
Title: Song of Songs
ff. 269r-276r
Title: Ecclesiastes
ff. 276r-280r
Title: Lamentations
ff. 280r-573v
Title: Esther

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 287 folios (i+287+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 174 × 119 mm.
Dimensions (written): 145 × 67 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink on the verso sides(!); starting on f. 5v at the beginning of Genesis., finishes on f. 199v.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink restarts on f. 201r.

Collation

25 quires: i4 (ff. 1-4), ii-vii12 (ff. 5-16, 17-28, 29-40, 41-52, 53-64, 65-76), viii10 (ff. 77-86), ix-xvii12 (ff. 87-98, 99-110, 111-122, 123-134, 135-146, 147-158, 159-170, 171-182, 183-194), xviii-xix10 (ff. 195-204, 205-214), xx12 (ff. 215-226), xxi10 (ff. 227-236), xxii-xxiv12 (ff. 237-248, 249-260, 261-272), xxv10 (ff. 273-282), xxvifive.

Signatures at the end of the quires in Hebrew characters (only quires i-xvi), starting from the beginning the Genesis; that is, quire ii= quire א.

Condition

Usage stains.

Ff. 1-7: margins are fixed.

F. 92v is mutilated.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 28

Written lines: 28

Uniform layout.

Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.

Ruling is visible.

Masorah magna in the lower margin sometimes in geometric form.

Hand(s)

Sefardi square script of the 15th century; vocalised.

Decoration

Illuminated initial-panel words (ff. 5v, 52v, 92v ｢most of it has been cut out｣, 121r, 162v, 200r).

Masoretic comparison tables in illuminated arcades with the differences between the systems of Ben Asher and Ben Naftali(ff. 2r-4v).

Additions:

Dedication on f. 1r:

Binding

Red leather binding.

Title on spine: 'Pentateuch. Hebrew. Brit. Lib. Oriental MS. 14054.'

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Ownership inscription by Yaḥia ben Mordekhai, who dedicated the codex to his father Mordekhai ben Avraham Śaśon: בינ"ו - זה החומש ההגה שזכה וקנה אתו הגביר היקר והנעלה לשם טוב ולתחלה כה"ר יחיא בכ"ר מרדכי זכר צדיק לברכה והקדיש אתו לשם מנוחת אביו הגביר הזקן היקר כה"ר מרדכי בכ"ר אברהם ששון נ"ע תהי נפשו צרורה בצרור החיים ויזכה נשמתו לחיי עולם הבא והרי הוא קדש ליי והיה הוא ותמורתו יהיה קדש ברוך יהיה הקורא בו וארור הגונב אתו והמוכר אתו ונכתב יום שני שהוא יום ר"ח אייר שנת שמ"ח לבנ"ו בישועתך לפ"ק התל"ו ליצירה. (f. 1v). Written in 1 Iyar 5436 (1676).

David Solomon Sassoon (1880-1942): collector of Jewish manuscripts: his bookplate on front pastedown.

Acquired in 1982; date of accession 5 February 1982.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and the Catalogue of Hebrew Manuscripts in the Gaster Collection, the British Library, London; preface by Brad Sabin Hill; reproduced from the MS and typescript blue-slips prepared by Jacob Leeven, Joseph Rosenwasser and David Goldstein (London: Hebrew Section. Oriental and India Office Collection, 1996) (unpublished copy is available in the AAS reading room).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_14054 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Sassoon, D.S., אהל דוד (Ohel Dawid) Descriptive Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the Sassoon Library, London (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1932), v. 1, p. 21.

Funding of Cataloguing

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