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

Title

Torah (תורה)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 18694
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

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• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_18694
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Yiddish

Origin

Place

Germany

Summary

The Pentateuch, in Yiddish translation.

Notes

• Originally defective at the beginning and at the end; several leaves added in the 17th century to restore the text.
   
• Several pages damaged or stained.
   

Extent

219 folios; 219 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'The Pentateuch. In German In Hebrew Characters. Brit. Mus. Add. Or. 18,694.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 21 34; written lines: 21 34; Uniform layout. Between 21 and 34 lines a page. No ruling is visible. Running titles. Large square initial words. Catchwords on every verso, partly cut off.

Script

Ashkenazi cursive script of the 16th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Adolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum (see 131-153 ): purchased from him on 24 May 1851: inscribed, [220v].
   

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 — Genesis
• fol. 58v — Exodus
• fol. 102v — Leviticus
• fol. 136r — Numbers
• fol. 176v — Deuteronomy