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Add MS 11829

Record Id:
040-003367255
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-002041530
MDARK:
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Add MS 11829
Title:
Pentateuch scroll
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002041530
040-003367255
Is part of:
Add MS 11828-12117 : Collection belonging to the late Right Rev. Samuel Butler, D.D., Lord Bishop of Lichfield.

 

Add MS 11829 : Pentateuch scroll
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032-002041530[0294]/040-003367255
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Record Type (Level):
File
Extent:
31 membranes, 116 columns.
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_11829 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1500-1599
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Thomas Butler
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 11829

Pentateuch scroll

Contents

Torah scroll.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-2v
Title: Sefer Torah
Title: ספר תורה

Consists of a number of fragments: Genesis 1:1-49:7, Exodus 5:14-17:6, Deuteronomy 22:3-25:9, Leviticus 4:20-7:27, 13:37-17:12, 9:22-13:37, Numbers 4:11-6:2, Leviticus 27:7-Numbers 1:49, Numbers 14:36-19:13, Deuteronomy 18:22-22:3, 29:24-34:12.

Physical Description

Leather scroll of the 16th century.
Form: scroll
Material: leather
Support: Leather
Extent: 31 membranes, 116 columns.
Dimensions (leaf): 556 (825mm with the rollers) × 1992 mm.

Collation

31 membranes, with wooden rollers. Silk, brocade and linen mantle.

Condition

Ink offset to verso.

Damaged roller.

Layout

Columns:116

Ruled lines: 42

Written lines: 42

Uniform layout.

Ruling by hard point.

Visible pricking and stiching.

116 columns in total, three to five columns per membrane.

Three tagin on שעטנזגץ, and one on בדהיק.

Several instances of majuscular and minuscular letters.

The "puncta extraordinaria" placed on the words fixed by masorah, with a few exceptions.

Hand(s)

Sefardi square script of the 16th century.

Binding

BM in-house. Boxed.

History

Origin: 1500-1599 16th century Unknown

Provenance and Acquisition

1841-07-05

Presented to the British Museum by Rev. Thomas Butler on 05 July 1841.

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=Add_MS_11829 (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. 5.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL