Description of British Library, Add MS 26938: Torah (תורה) contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library 2022-11-15 2022-11-15 These images and the content of British Library Add MS 26938: 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 26938: 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. Ya'akov Kats: inscribed with his name, folio 401r, with a date of 421 (1661). 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 26938 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_26938 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts The Pentatuech, provided with vowel-points and accents. Hebrew Torah (תורה) 1r Genesis 103v Exodus 191v Leviticus 250v Numbers 332v Deuteronomy

Parchment

 401 folios; 401 folios Columns: 1; ruled lines: 15; written lines: 15; No masoretic comments. Visible difference between hair side and flesh side of the leaf. Visible ruling with pencil. The first word of each book written in larger characters. Italian square script, punctuated.

BM/BL in-house binding.

Between 1400 and 1599

Italy Acquisition: Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 46: inscribed (folio [406v]); his library including 322 medieval Hebrew manuscripts were purchased en bloc by the British Museum in October 1865 for £1,000 through Asher & Co., Berlin dealer to the British Museum (see 131-153).