Description of British Library, Arundel Or 2: Torah, hafṭarot ṿe-megilot (תורה, הפטרות ומגילות) contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library These images and the content of British Library Arundel Or 2: Torah, hafṭarot ṿe-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 Arundel Or 2: Torah, hafṭarot ṿe-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. Parchment of poor quality with a lot of holes. Many leaves are soiled and mutilated. Numerous leaves have been amended, patched with paper (watermark on folio 67 with the word beginning 'Green...'). 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 Arundel Or 2 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Arundel_Or_2 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts Pentateuch with Targum Onḳelos in the margin, the Hafṭarot with the Five Scrolls in the margin, with punctuation and accents. Hebrew; Jewish Babylonian Aramaic (ca. 200-1200 CE) Torah, hafṭarot ṿe-megilot (תורה, הפטרות ומגילות) 1r Genesis 57r Exodus 115r Leviticus 157r Numbers 219r Deuteronomy 271v Hafṭarot (of the weekly pericopes) Song of Songs 274r Ruth 278v Lamentations 288v Esther 300v Ecclesiastes

Parchment

 301 folios; 301 folios Columns: 2; ruled lines: 19; written lines: 19; Hair-side and flesh-side of folios distinguishable. Complete ruling by hard point, bifolium by bifolium on hair-side of folios. Pricking in outer margins only, quire by quire on verso. Each of the books of the Pentateuch commences a new leaf and Haftarot begin a new column. The first words of each pericope in the Pentateuch, Hafṭarot and Five Scrolls written in larger characters. The beginning of each pericope marked by פ פ פ. Last line written within ruling. Main text in two columns, commentary in outer and lower margins. Ashkenazi (French?) square script of the 13th century. Śimḥah bar Yosef: inscribed with his name on folio 271v: חזק ונתחזק שמחה בר יוסף. The word Shelomoh is decorated on folio 276v.

BM/BL in-house, with the emblem of Bibliotheca Arundeliana as centrepiece. Spine: 'Pentateuchus Hebraice. Brit. Mus. Ar. Or. 2.'

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 Acquisition: Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831.