Description of British Library, Add MS 15306: Torah (תורה) contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library These images and the content of British Library Add MS 15306: Torah (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 15306: Torah (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. Petri Arrivabeni: inscribed with his name: 'Io petri Arriuabeni', undated (folio 1r). David Yitsḥaḳ Karmi: inscribed with his name in an owner's inscription, undated (folio 2r). Yitsḥaḳ Kohen ben [ .. .. ] Yoshu῾a Kohen: inscribed with his name in an owner's inscription (folio 2r). Illegible Latin inscription (folio 195v). Giovanni Domenico Carretto, Italian censor (active 1600-1624): inscribed with his name, 1612 (folio 196r ); see 100-1011. Italian inscription: 'Pentateuco Ebraico ossia li cinque libri di Moise' (folio 196v). 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 15306 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_15306 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts Pentateuch accompanied by masorah magna and masorah parva. Hebrew Torah (תורה) 2r Masoretic lists 8v Genesis 53r Exodus 92v Leviticus 119v Numbers 157v Deuteronomy 192v Masoretic lists.

Parchment

 196 folios; 196 folios Columns: 2; ruled lines: 25; written lines: 25; Uniform layout. Masorah magna often written in the form of figures, animals and patterns; otherwise it occupies three lines in the upper margin and two in the lower margin. Round the margins of folios 2v-7r and 192r-196r there is an unpunctuated text of parts of Psalms in large square characters Ruling with hard point on the hair-side of folios, hardly visible. The beginning of the weekly section is marked by פרש' in the margin. The chapters and subdivisions having been noted by means of Hebrew letters in later writing. Sefardi square script of late 14th or early 15th century, with punctuation.

Post-1600. Crimson velvet binding. Boxed. Spine: 'Pentateuchus Hebraice. M.S. in Membrana. Mus. Brit. Jure Emptionis. 15,306. Plut.'

Between 1375 and 1424

Spain Acquisition: Prince Augustus Frederick (b. 1773, d. 1843), duke of Sussex: his armorial book-plate, inscribed (inner front cover); his sale 13 August 1844, lot 314: inscribed on folio 1r; purchased by the British Museum through Thomas Thorpe for £20.