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

Title

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_19250
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

Language

Origin

Place

Kaifeng, China

Summary

The Pentateuch scroll, so-called 'Kaifeng Torah Scroll.'

Notes

• One liquid spill.
   
• A few cuts/tears at edges.
   
• Some erasures. Slight dirt.
   
• Pleats and folds (not obscuring text).
   

Extent

Support

Binding

Layout

Script

Provenance

• Acquisition: Presented to the British Museum by the Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews on 11 December 1852: inscribed on verso.
   

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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• Text

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