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Title

Torah, megilot ṿe-hafṭarot (תורה, מגילות והפטרות)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 19776
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_19776
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Unknown

Summary

The Pentateuch, Five Scrolls, Hafṭarot accompanied by masorah magna, masorah parva and grammatical treatises (aka the 'Coburg Pentateuch').

Notes

• The Pentateuch was punctuated by R. Samuel bar Abraham of Molerstadt : mentioned in a marginal note as the punctuator (folio 96r); inscribed with his name in a colophon as the punctuator who punctuated the codex 'until this point' within six weeks, Sunday, beginning of Kislev, folio 112v; mentioned as punctuator of the Pentateuch who punctuated it in Babenberg, colophon at the end of the codex, dated 1396, folio 252r.
   
• The Five Scrolls, the Haftarot and the grammatical treatise were punctuated by R.Gershom bar Judah in Rödelsee, colophon at the end of the codex, dated 1396, folio 252r.
   
• Obituary entries: death of a later owner's parents (Bittingen, 1535, and Wallerstein, 1539) (folio 252r).
   
• Alexander ben Solomon Zalman Kohen: inscribed with his name, 1750, folio 1r.
   
• Illegible Hebrew inscriptions, folio 1r.
   

Extent

252 folios; 252 folios

Foliation

Foliation in pencil can be found also in the outer lower corner of recto sides, hardly visible.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Post-1600. Dark brown leather. Spine: 'Pentateuch. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 19,776.'

Layout

Columns: 2; ruled lines: 33; written lines: 32; Uniform layout. Double pricking for major lines, in outer and inner margins, quire by quire. Complete ruling by plummet (each bifolium on both sides). Last written line within ruling. Graphic filler at the end of line. 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.

Script

Ashkenazi square and semi-cursive script of the 13th century; punctuation provided by two different hands. R. Simḥah bar Shemu᾿el ha-Levi: mentioned in the colophon at the end of the Pentateuch, Monday 21, Adar Sheni, 1395, folio 169v; also mentioned as scribe in the colophon at the end of the codex, Coburg, 1396, folio 252r; the word שמחה is decorated several times (e.g. 17v, 112v, 126v, 131v, 132r, 154v, 184v).

Provenance

• Acquisition: M. Ashkenazi: purchased by the British Museum from him through D. Nutt in April 1854, inscribed [253v].
   

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. 1v — Genesis
• fol. 28v — Exodus
• fol. 55r — Leviticus
• fol. 73r — Numbers
• fol. 96v — Deuteronomy
• fol. 117v — Song of Songs
• fol. 119v — Ruth
• fol. 121v — Lamentations
• fol. 124r — Ecclesiastes
• fol. 128r — Esther
• fol. 132v — Hafṭarot for the whole year.
• fol. 170r — ʻEn ha-kore עין הקורא
• fol. 237v — A collection of several pieces on masorah, punctuation and accents.