Description of British Library, Add MS 11829: 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 11829: 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 11829: 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. Ink offset to verso. Damaged roller. 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 11829 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_11829 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts The Pentateuch scroll. Hebrew Sefer Torah (ספר תורה) 1r ספר תורה 1r Sefer Torah

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 31 membranes, 116 columns.; 31 membranes, 116 columns. 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. Sefardi square script of the 16th century.

BM in-house. Boxed.

Between 1500 and 1599

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