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Title

Torah, hafṭarot u-megilot (תורה, הפטרות ומגילות)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 9401
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_9401
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

Pentateuch with Hafṭarot and the Five Scrolls.

Notes

• Lacuna of ca. 6 leaves after folio 226.
   

Extent

297 folios; 297 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Bible. Hebrew. Vol. I. Brit. Mus. Additional 9401.'

Layout

Columns: 3; ruled lines: 26; written lines: 25; Uniform layout. Visible pricking and ruling with hard-point. Main text in three columns, with supralinear masoretic punctuation and accents. Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Song of Songs and Haftarot open a new leaf. Initial word of each book in large ornamental characters. Beginning of a new pericope in Pentateuch indicated by three letters פ and by the first word written in larger characters. Masorah magna in two lines at the top of the page and three lines in the lower margin. A number of masoretic rubrics at the end of the books.

Script

Square Ashkenazi script of the 13th century.

Provenance

• Wolf Leib
   
• Binyamin bar Yo᾿el
   
• John van der Hagen
   
• Acquisition: Adam Clarke (b. 1762, d. 1832), Wesleyan Methodist minister and scholar. His bookplate with Greek inscription: ho theos agape estin (folio [i verso]). This codex, together with nine other manuscripts (Additional 9398-9407), was acquired by the British Museum in 1834, once the property of the Hagen family and then bought from Adam Clarke.
   

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. 3r — Genesis
• fol. 56r — Exodus
• fol. 100r — Leviticus
• fol. 132r — Numbers
• fol. 176r — Deuteronomy
• fol. 214r — Song of Songs
• fol. 217v — Ruth
• fol. 221r — Ecclesiastes
• fol. 227r — Esther