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Title

Torah (תורה)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 15306
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_15306
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Spain

Summary

Pentateuch accompanied by masorah magna and masorah parva.

Notes

• Petri Arrivabeni: inscribed with his name: 'Io petri Arriuabeni', undated (folio 1r).
   
• David Yitsḥaḳ Karmi: inscribed with his name in an owner's inscription, undated (folio 2r).
   
• Yitsḥaḳ Kohen ben [ .. .. ] Yoshu῾a Kohen: inscribed with his name in an owner's inscription (folio 2r).
   
• Illegible Latin inscription (folio 195v).
   
• Giovanni Domenico Carretto, Italian censor (active 1600-1624): inscribed with his name, 1612 (folio 196r ); see 100-1011.
   
• Italian inscription: 'Pentateuco Ebraico ossia li cinque libri di Moise' (folio 196v).
   

Extent

196 folios; 196 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

Post-1600. Crimson velvet binding. Boxed. Spine: 'Pentateuchus Hebraice. M.S. in Membrana. Mus. Brit. Jure Emptionis. 15,306. Plut.'

Layout

Columns: 2; ruled lines: 25; written lines: 25; Uniform layout. Masorah magna often written in the form of figures, animals and patterns; otherwise it occupies three lines in the upper margin and two in the lower margin. Round the margins of folios 2v-7r and 192r-196r there is an unpunctuated text of parts of Psalms in large square characters Ruling with hard point on the hair-side of folios, hardly visible. The beginning of the weekly section is marked by פרש' in the margin. The chapters and subdivisions having been noted by means of Hebrew letters in later writing.

Script

Sefardi square script of late 14th or early 15th century, with punctuation.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Prince Augustus Frederick (b. 1773, d. 1843), duke of Sussex: his armorial book-plate, inscribed (inner front cover); his sale 13 August 1844, lot 314: inscribed on folio 1r; purchased by the British Museum through Thomas Thorpe for £20.
   

Related resources

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

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Table of contents

• fol. 2r — Masoretic lists
• fol. 8v — Genesis
• fol. 53r — Exodus
• fol. 92v — Leviticus
• fol. 119v — Numbers
• fol. 157v — Deuteronomy
• fol. 192v — Masoretic lists.