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

Or 1085 Sefer Torah (ספר תורה)

Title

Sefer Torah (ספר תורה)

Funders

The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 1085
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Between 1600 and 1699

Place: GermanyPoland

Summary

The Pentateuch scroll.

Notes

Dirt. Oily patches.
Large infills at inner end, lost adhesion.
Severe cockling and pleats obscuring text.
Ink flaking. Carbon ink granular, with losses from damp.
Water-damaged (ink offset to verso from damp).
Small rectangular excisions.

Extent

28 membranes, 82 columns.; 28 membranes, 82 columns.

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM in-house. Boxed.

Layout

Columns: 82; ruled lines: 48; written lines: 48; Uniform layout. Ruling by hard point. Visible pricking and stiching. 82 columns in total, one to four columns per membrane. Three tagin on the letters שעטנזגץ, and one on בדהי. The letter ח is arched throughout, and פ' לפוף is very frequent. Several instances of majuscular and minuscular letters. Special shapes of the letters ם, ה, ו, י. The "puncta extraordinaria" occur in Num. 3:39, 9:10, and 21:30. No inverted nun placed before and after Num. 10:35-36. Every column begins with a new verse, and the initial letter is always ו, with the exception of Gen. 1:1, 5:1, and 13 other instances.

Script

Ashkenazi square script of the 17th century.

Provenance

Acquisition: Bequeathed to the British Museum by Rev. J. Noble Coleman on 25 May 1872: inscribed on verso.

Related resources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

Licenses

Text

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URL

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