Description of British Library, Add MS 11828: Sefer Torah (ספר תורה) contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library 2020-06-30 2020-06-30 These images and the content of British Library Add MS 11828: Sefer Torah (ספר תורה) 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 11828: Sefer Torah (ספר תורה). 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. Edge dirt and tears. Stains on verso. Slight worming at inner end. Edges trimmed unevenly, with small folds at joins. 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 11828 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_11828 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts The Pentateuch scroll. Hebrew Sefer Torah (ספר תורה) 1r ספר תורה 1r Sefer Torah

Parchment

 48 membranes, 147 columns.; 48 membranes, 147 columns. Columns: 147; ruled lines: 57 58; written lines: 57 58; Uniform layout. Ruling by hard point. Visible pricking and stitching. 147 columns in total, two to four columns per membrane. Three tagin on שעטנזגץ, and one on אבדהחיספקת. The letters ש and צ sometimes provided with four tagin, and ט and צ sometimes with five tagin. The letters בהכךמםספףקת occasionally with three tagin, and on הכמפר sometimes two. The letter ח arched throughout. Several instances of majuscular and minuscular letters. Special shapes of the letter ו, נ, פ, ע, ח, ז, י, ל, ס, ר occur. The inverted נ before and after Num. 10:35-36 is missing. The "puncta extraordinaria" placed on the words fixed by masorah. Wooden rollers (870mm high). Ashkenazi square script of the 17th century.

BM in-house. Boxed.

Between 1600 and 1699

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