Description of British Library, Add MS 9400: Torah, megilot ṿe-hafṭarot (תורה, מגילות והפטרות)

Description of British Library, Add MS 9400: 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 9400: 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 9400: 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. 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 9400 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_9400 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Pentateuch with Targum Onḳelos, the Five Scrolls and Hafṭarot, with punctuation and accents.

Hebrew; Jewish Babylonian Aramaic (ca. 200-1200 CE) Torah, megilot ṿe-hafṭarot (תורה, מגילות והפטרות) 2v Genesis 70r Exodus 128r Leviticus 170r Numbers 223v Deuteronomy 275r Song of Songs 277r Ruth 279r Lamentations 282r Ecclesiastes 286v Esther 292r Hafṭarot

Parchment

337 folios; 337 folios Columns: 3; ruled lines: 29; written lines: 28; Folios 2-5 and 274 added in the 18th century. Numbers, Song of Songs and Ecclesisates commence a new leaf. Initial words of Genesis, Song of Songs and Haftarot written in larger letters. Beginnings of pericopes in the Pentateuch marked in the margin by ornamented פ or פר. Ashkenazi square script, provided with vowel-points and accents, of the 13th century.

Post-1600. Brown leather, blind-tooled, with clasps. Spine: 'Bible. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 9400.'

Between 1200 and 1299

John van der Hagen Cornelius Schulting Acquisition: Adam Clarke (b. 1762, d. 1832), Wesleyan Methodist minister and scholar. His bookplate with Greek inscription: ho theos agape estin (inner lower cover) and his short description of the manuscript in English on folio [ii verso]. This codex, together with nine other manuscripts (Add MS 9398-9407), was acquired by the British Museum in 1834, once the property of the Hagen family and then of Adam Clarke.