Description of British Library, Add MS 10455: Torah, megilot ṿe-hafṭarot (תורה, מגילות והפטרות) contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library 2023-01-31 2023-01-31 These images and the content of British Library Add MS 10455: Torah, megilot ṿe-hafṭarot (תורה, מגילות והפטרות) are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. To the extent possible under law, British Library has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about British Library Add MS 10455: Torah, megilot ṿe-hafṭarot (תורה, מגילות והפטרות). This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode. Many pages have trimmed margins. Water damage at edges. Finger grease, stains, wax, etc. A few areas of mould mottling. Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965. United Kingdom London British Library Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project Add MS 10455 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_10455 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts Pentateuch with Targum Onḳelos, the Five Scrolls, the Hafṭarot and parts of the Prophets, with punctuation and accents, provided with masorah magna and parva. Hebrew; Jewish Babylonian Aramaic (ca. 200-1200 CE) Torah, megilot ṿe-hafṭarot (תורה, מגילות והפטרות) 1v Genesis 86v Exodus 162r Leviticus 211v Numbers 284v Deuteronomy 349r Song of Songs 352v Ruth 355r Lamentations 358v Ecclesiastes 365r Esther 372v Hafṭarot of the weekly pericopes, of the feasts and fasts. 423r Job 441r Jeremiah 441v Isaiah

Parchment

 460 folios (ii+460+i); 460 folios (ii+460+i) Columns: 3; ruled lines: 29; written lines: 28; Uniform layout. Visible pricking and page by page plummet ruling. Graphic fillers at the end of the lines. Large square initial words. Last line of text written within ruling. Each of the books of the Pentateuch commences a new leaf and Hafṭarot begin a new column. The beginning of each pericope marked by פ פ פ. Ashkenazi square script of the 14th century. Shimshon ben Ya῾aḳov Vivant: inscribed as the main scribe in the colophon, folio 460v. Shelomoh ha-Naḳdan: inscribed as the punctuator in the colophon on folio 460v.

Pre-1600. Thick brown leather, blind tooled boards, with bosses. Embroidered velour doublures. Boxed. Spine: Biblia Hebraica. Mus. Brit. Jure Emptionis. 10,455. Plut.

Between 1310 and 1311

 Shimshon ben Ya῾aḳov, 'Vivant' Acquisition: Purchased of Rodd (?), May 1836 (inner front cover); perhaps Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849).