Description of British Library, Add MS 15282: Torah, megilot ṿe-hafṭarot (תורה,מגילות והפטרות) contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library These images and the content of British Library Add MS 15282: 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 15282: 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. The margins have been cropped. Ya῾aḳov ben Mordekhai: sold to Yeḥiel ben Uri on 28 of the month Iyyar 229 Hebrew [1469 Gregorian]: inscribed in a purchase note (folio 358v). Italian and French translation of the same purchase note on a paper leaf foliated and presently part of quire xxii (dated 1824) (folio 359v). Italian insrciption: 'Questo libro .. venduto nel 28 Ijar 5229' (18th-19th century) (folio 360r). English description of the manuscript, in pencil, partially illegible (19th century?) (folio 1r). 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 15282 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_15282 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts Pentateuch (aka the 'Duke of Sussex's German Pentateuch') with Targum Onḳelos, small pieces on the feasts, Five Scrolls and Hafṭarot, accompanied by masorah magna and parva. Hebrew; Jewish Babylonian Aramaic (ca. 200-1200 CE) Torah, megilot ṿe-hafṭarot (תורה,מגילות והפטרות) 1v Genesis 75v Exodus 137r Leviticus 179v Numbers 238r Deuteronomy 294r Ruth 296v Song of Songs 299r Lamentations 302r Ecclesiastes 307v Esther 314r Hafṭarot

Parchment

 360 folios; 360 folios Columns: 3; ruled lines: 31; written lines: 30; Ruling and pricking are sometimes visible. Smaller sections of Hafṭarot are marked at the beginning of each pericope with red Hebrew letters (א at the end of the first portion, ב at the beginning of the second, the end of the third portion is indicated by black א marking the end of the first Sabbath lection). The beginning of each of the five books of the Torah is distinguished by a whole page illumination in gold and colours, with the first word of the respective book in the middle. At the beginning of each of the Five Scrolls and Hafṭarot there is a similar ornament, but smaller. Masorah in micrographic design in numerous folios, often shaped to illustate the biblical text. Gilt edges. Small pen decorations on several folios. Main text in Ashkenazi square and semi-cursive script, punctuated; masoretic notes in Ashkenazi semi-cursive, not punctuated, of the 14th century. Ḥayim, inscribed with his name (folios 313v, 358r); the word חיים is marked on folio 244v).

Pre-1600. 16th-century gold-tooled Venetian binding. Spine: 'Pentateuch. Hebrew & Aramaic. Brit. Mus. Additional 15,282.'

Between 1300 and 1324

Germany Acquisition: Prince Augustus Frederick (b. 1773, d. 1843), duke of Sussex: his armorial book-plate, inscribed 'VI. H. C. 2', and above the book-plate 'Sec. xiii. B.S. Vol. I, Part I, p. xiv, no. 3' (inside upper cover); his sale 2 August 1844, lot 313: inscribed, folio 360v, purchased by the British Museum through Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849) for £111.