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Collection ID: 0047 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Add MS 11828 Sefer Torah (ספר תורה)

Title

Sefer Torah (ספר תורה)

Funders

The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 11828
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Between 1600 and 1699

Place: Germany

Summary

The Pentateuch scroll.

Notes

Edge dirt and tears.
Stains on verso.
Slight worming at inner end.
Edges trimmed unevenly, with small folds at joins.

Extent

48 membranes, 147 columns.; 48 membranes, 147 columns.

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM in-house. Boxed.

Layout

Columns: 147; ruled lines: 57 58; written lines: 57 58; Uniform layout. Ruling by hard point. Visible pricking and stitching. 147 columns in total, two to four columns per membrane. Three tagin on שעטנזגץ, and one on אבדהחיספקת. The letters ש and צ sometimes provided with four tagin, and ט and צ sometimes with five tagin. The letters בהכךמםספףקת occasionally with three tagin, and on הכמפר sometimes two. The letter ח arched throughout. Several instances of majuscular and minuscular letters. Special shapes of the letter ו, נ, פ, ע, ח, ז, י, ל, ס, ר occur. The inverted נ before and after Num. 10:35-36 is missing. The "puncta extraordinaria" placed on the words fixed by masorah. Wooden rollers (870mm high).

Script

Ashkenazi square script of the 17th century.

Provenance

Acquisition: Presented to the British Museum by Rev. Thomas Butler on 05 July 1841.

Related resources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

Licenses

Text

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URL

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Text

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