Description of British Library, Add MS 21160: Torah, hafṭarot u-megilot (תורה, הפטרות ומגילות) contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library These images and the content of British Library Add MS 21160: Torah, hafṭarot u-megilot (תורה, הפטרות ומגילות) 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 21160: Torah, hafṭarot u-megilot (תורה, הפטרות ומגילות). 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. 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 21160 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_21160 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts Pentateuch, Hafṭarot, Five Scrolls and Job, accompanied by Targum Onḳelos and masorah magna and parva (aka 'Yonah Pentateuch'). Hebrew; Jewish Babylonian Aramaic (ca. 200-1200 CE) Torah, hafṭarot u-megilot (תורה, הפטרות ומגילות) 63v Exodus 137r Leviticus 184r Numbers 253v Deuteronomy 274r Hafṭarot 298r Ruth 301r Song of Songs 301v Ecclesiastes 308r Esther 315r Lamentations 318v Job

Parchment

 329 folios; 329 folios Columns: 3; ruled lines: 31; written lines: 30; Uniform layout. The manuscript is defective at the beginning and at the end, with leaves missing after folio 273, 300 and 321. The beginning of each book is distinguished by the opening word or words being written in large characters. Masorah magna often written in the form of figures, animals and patterns; otherwise it occupies three lines in the upper margin and four in the lower margin. Ashkenazi square script of 13th century; punctuation provided by a different hand. Baruch ; the word ברוך is marked on folio 1r. 1 inhabited initial word in ink. Numerous micrographical illustrations.

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Biblia Hebraica. Pentateuchus. Haphtaroth. Megilloth V. Iob. Brit. Mus. Add. Or. 21,160.'

Between 1250 and 1299

Germany Acquisition: M. Edwin Tross of Paris: purchased by the British Museum from him on 13 October 1855, inscribed (([331v])).