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Title

Torah ṿe-hafṭarot (תורה והפטרות)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Harley MS 5683
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_5683
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

Pentateuch and Hafṭarot provided with vowel-points, the Hafṭarot are also accentuated.

Notes

• Several folios mutilated.
   

Extent

201 folios; 201 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Pentateuch & Haphtaroth. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Harl. 5683.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 24; written lines: 24; Pricking and ruling with a hard-point on hair side are visible. Wide margin was left ruled for masoretic notes. Writing is suspended fron the upper margin. Pericopes are only marked by the first word written in larger letters. פתוחות וסתומות clearly observed. Very rare masoretic notes (see folio 20v).

Script

Italian square script, punctuated.

Provenance

• Acquisition: 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 — Exodus (from chapter 17:15 to ch. 40:8)
• fol. 31r — Leviticus (begins with ch. 8:28)
• fol. 58v — Numbers (missing chapters 7:61-15:10)
• fol. 99v — Deuteronomy (missing chapters 23:10-27:12)
• fol. 138v — Three certificates for a shoḥet.
• fol. 144r — Hafṭarot