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

Title

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1454
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

Language

Origin

Summary

The Pentateuch scroll.

Notes

• Salt or mould efflorescence.
   
• Edge damage, surface abrasion, tears, and losses. Text partly illegible.
   
• Some old patches with red rot.
   
• Dark, hard or stretchy edges from manufacture.
   
• Ink often flaked away.
   
• Pleats and folds occasionally obscure text.
   
• Some parts very wormed at edges and joins.
   

Extent

Support

Binding

Layout

Script

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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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — ספר תורה
• fol. 1r — Sefer Torah