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

Or 1453 Sefer Torah (ספר תורה)

Title

Sefer Torah (ספר תורה)

Funders

The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 1453
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Between 1400 and 1499

Summary

The Pentateuch scroll.

Notes

Dry mould and/or salt accretions.
Edge damage and tears.
Sewing split in a number of places.
Cracking/delamination at folds.
Worming and insect damage.
Bird excreta. Possible rodent urine contamination.
Slight water damage.

Extent

76 membranes, 225 columns.; 76 membranes, 225 columns.

Support

Leather

Binding

BM in-house. Boxed.

Layout

Columns: 225; ruled lines: 51; written lines: 51; Uniform layout. Ruling by hard point. Visible pricking and stiching. 224 columns in total, one to six columns per membrane. Majuscular and minuscular letter in several places. Special shape of the letter פ occurs frequently. The "puncta extraordinaria" placed on the words fixed by masorah. In most of the fragmetns the end of a verse and of a half-verse marked by a dry-point. An upper dry point sometimes distinguishes between כל, את, הוא and כל-, את-, הוא-.

Script

Oriental square script of the 15th century.

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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Text

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