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Collection ID: 0047 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Or 1451 Sefer Torah (ספר תורה)

Title

Sefer Torah (ספר תורה)

Funders

Call number

Or 1451
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Between 1400 and 1499
Place
Yemen

Summary

The Pentateuch scroll.

Notes

Extent

42 membranes, 226 columns.; 42 membranes, 226 columns.

Support

Leather

Binding

BM in-house. Boxed.

Layout

  • Columns: 226; ruled lines: 51; written lines: 51; Uniform layout. Ruling by hard point, membrane by membrane. Visible pricking and stitching. 226 columns in total, three to six columns per membrane, 51 lines per column. No tagin present. The letter ḥet arched throughout. Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy begins with a new column, four lines being left at the end of the preceding column. Every column commences with a new verse, most frequently beginning with the letter ו. The end of a verse marked by a dry point after the last word (omitted at the end of a section and column). אתנח indicated by a dry point under the word. An upper dry point distinguishes between את, כל, הוא and את-, כל-, הוא-. Three dry points sometimes in the margin at the beginning of an open or closed section. Special arrangement of lines of the Song of Moses. Majuscular and minuscular letter in accordance with the rules. The reversed letter nun is placed before and after Num. 10:35-36; 'pe lafuf' is very frequent.
  • Script

  • Yemenite square script of the 15th century.
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    Section: ספר תורה
    Section: Sefer Torah

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