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

Title

Jerusalem Targum (תרגום ירושלמי)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 27031
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27031
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Jewish Babylonian Aramaic (ca. 200-1200 CE); Hebrew

Origin

Place

Italy, N.

Summary

The Jerusalem Targum on the Pentateuch, unvocalised.

Notes

• Several folios stained.
   
• Menasheh Biriḳsisi (?): inscribed with his name on folio 3r.
   
• Censored by Domenico Irosolimitano (b. 1550, d. 1620) of Hebrew books active in Italy: his inscription dated 1598 , folio 231v (see ; 9Berliner_1891p.9; 137).
   

Extent

231 folios; 231 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 30; written lines: 30;

Script

Ashkenazi semi-cursive script of the 16th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 137, inscribed with his name on folio [233v]. 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. 4r — Genesis
• fol. 59r — Exodus
• fol. 105r — Leviticus
• fol. 139r — Numbers
• fol. 189r — Deuteronomy