Description of British Library, Add MS 19250: The Pentateuch scroll, so-called 'Kaifeng Torah Scroll.'

Description of British Library, Add MS 19250: The Pentateuch scroll, so-called 'Kaifeng Torah Scroll.' contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library These images and the content of British Library Add MS 19250: The Pentateuch scroll, so-called 'Kaifeng Torah Scroll.' 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 19250: The Pentateuch scroll, so-called 'Kaifeng Torah Scroll.'. 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. One liquid spill. A few cuts/tears at edges. Some erasures. Slight dirt. Pleats and folds (not obscuring text). 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 19250 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_19250 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

The Pentateuch scroll, so-called 'Kaifeng Torah Scroll.'

Hebrew The Pentateuch scroll, so-called 'Kaifeng Torah Scroll.'

Parchment

95 membranes, 239 columns.; 95 membranes, 239 columns. Columns: 239; ruled lines: 49; written lines: 49; Uniform layout. Ruling by hard point. 239 columns in total, one to five columns per membrane. No tagin. No majuscular and minuscular letters, or special shapes of letters. The "puncta extraordinaria" placed on a few words only. Oriental (close to Persian) square script of the 17th century.

BM in-house. Boxed.

Between 1643 and 1663

Kaifeng, China Acquisition: Presented to the British Museum by the Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews on 11 December 1852: inscribed on verso.