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

Title

Torah (תורה)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 1041
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1041
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

; Hebrew

Origin

Place

Yemen

Summary

The Pentateuch in Sa'adia Gaon's translation.

Notes

• Shelomoh ben Yosef ben Ṣalaḥ, his inscription on folio 49r.
   
• G'aramah ibn Sa'alam, his inscription on folio 118v.
   
• Yosef ben Shelomoh Ṣalaḥowner, his name inscribed on 187r.
   
• Saliman ibn Yaḥyah, his name inscribed on 188v.
   
• Abraham ibn Yosef al-Aḥmar and Da'ud ibn Yosef al-Aḥmar, mentioned as owners in a record of sale, 18 Nisan 1920 (1609), folio 89r.
   

Extent

188 folios; 188 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 22; written lines: 22; Uniform layout.

Script

Yemenite square script of the 14th to 15th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Adolf Neubauer (b. 1832, d. 1907), Hebrew scholar born in Hungary: purchased by the British Museum from him on 06 October 1870: inscribed ([189v]).
   

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. 49r — Exodus
• fol. 89r — Leviticus
• fol. 117r — Numbers
• fol. 153r — Deuteronomy