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

Add MS 4707 The Pentateuch scroll.

Title

The Pentateuch scroll.

Funders

Call number

Add MS 4707
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Between 1400 and 1499
Place
Spain

Summary

The Pentateuch scroll.

Notes

Extent

70 membranes, 268 columns.; 70 membranes, 268 columns.

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM in-house. Boxed.

Layout

  • Columns: 268; ruled lines: 42; written lines: 42; Uniform layout. Ruling by hard point. Visible pricking and stiching. 268 columns in total, three to five columns per membrane. Three tagin on שעטנזגץ, and one on בדהיק, sometimes also ו and ח (which is occasionally arched). Several instances of majuscular and minuscular letters. Special shapes of the letter נ, פ and broken ו occur. The "puncta extraordinaria" placed on the words fixed by masorah. Wooden rollers (760mm high).
  • Script

  • Sefardi square script of the 15th century.
  • Provenance

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