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Title

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

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 9404
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_9404
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

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

Origin

Summary

Pentateuch, Hafṭarot and Five Scrolls with Targum.

Notes

• Several folios are stained.
   
• A standard scribal formula occurs at the end of Exodus (folio 82v) and Leviticus (folio 108v): חזק ונתחזק.
   

Extent

210 folios; 210 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Pentateuch with Targum. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional Ms. 9404.'

Layout

Columns: 3; ruled lines: 41; written lines: 40; Uniform layout. Leviticus, Esther, Song of Songs and Hafṭarot commence a new leaf. Initial words of each book written in larger letters. Masoretic calculations at the end of Genesis and Leviticus. No Masorah magna or parva, although the ruling for both of them is provided. Visible pricking and ruling with sharp object on the hair-side of folios.

Script

Ashkenazi square script of the 14th centiry.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Adam Clarke (b. 1762, d. 1832), Wesleyan Methodist minister and scholar. This codex, together with nine other manuscripts (Add MS 9398-9407) was acquired by the British Museum in 1834, once the property of the Hagen family and then of Adam Clarke.
   

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. 45v — Exodus
• fol. 83r — Leviticus
• fol. 108v — Numbers
• fol. 146r — Deuteronomy
• fol. 174r — Esther
• fol. 178r — Song of Songs
• fol. 179v — Ruth
• fol. 181r — Lamentations
• fol. 182v — Ecclesiastes
• fol. 186v — Hafṭarot