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

Title

Torah (תורה)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 26938
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_26938
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

The Pentatuech, provided with vowel-points and accents.

Notes

• Ya'akov Kats: inscribed with his name, folio 401r, with a date of 421 (1661).
   

Extent

401 folios; 401 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM/BL in-house binding.

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 15; written lines: 15; No masoretic comments. Visible difference between hair side and flesh side of the leaf. Visible ruling with pencil. The first word of each book written in larger characters.

Script

Italian square script, punctuated.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 46: inscribed (folio [406v]); his library including 322 medieval Hebrew manuscripts were purchased en bloc by the British Museum in October 1865 for £1,000 through Asher & Co., Berlin dealer to the British Museum (see 131-153).
   

Related resources

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

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Genesis
• fol. 103v — Exodus
• fol. 191v — Leviticus
• fol. 250v — Numbers
• fol. 332v — Deuteronomy