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Title

Targum Onkelos (תרגום אונקלוס)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Harley MS 5520
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_5520
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

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

Origin

Place

France

Summary

Targum Onḳelos on the Pentateuch, provided with vowel-points.

Notes

• A few pages slightly damaged. Several pages stained.
   
• Matatyah: inscribed with his name on folio 1r (cf. 1125).
   
• Censored by Giovanni Domenico Carretto (fl. 1600-1624): inscribed with his name, 1623 (folio 112r, see 100-101) and Clemento Renatto: inscribed with his name, undated, folio 112v.
   

Extent

112 folios; 112 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

Post-1600. Harleian binding, red leather.

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 29 33; written lines: 29 30;

Script

Ashkenazi semi-cursive of the 13th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Edward Harley: inscription by Harley's librarian, Humfrey Wanley, 18 January 1723/4 (folio 1r). The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts. Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, d.1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.
   

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. 1r — Genesis
• fol. 32v — Exodus
• fol. 56r — Leviticus
• fol. 72v — Numbers
• fol. 92v — Deuteronomy