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

Or 1456 Sefer Torah (ספר תורה)

Title

Sefer Torah (ספר תורה)

Funders

The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 1456
(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

Surface accretions, salt, mould, leather bloom, including liquid trickle patterns.
Edge damage and tears, including possible red rot to repair patches.
Paper fragments adhered to verso.
Some pleats obscure text.
Various stains, including damp, glue, candle wax.
Surface abraded in part. Deliberate delamination and removal of surface.
Many splits in sewing.
Ink with white crust in places, partly flaked away.

Extent

75 membranes, 223 columns.; 75 membranes, 223 columns.

Support

Leather

Binding

BM in-house. Boxed.

Layout

Columns: 223; ruled lines: 50; written lines: 50; Uniform layout. Ruling by hard point, membrane by membrane. Visible pricking and stitching. 224 columns in total, one to six columns per membrane. Some tagin present. The letter ḥet is frequently arched. Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy begins with a new column, four lines being left at the end of the preceding column. Every column commences with a new verse, most frequently beginning with the letter ו. The end of a verse marked by a dry point after the last word (omitted at the end of a section and column). Three dry points sometimes in the margin at the beginning of an open or closed section. Special arrangement of lines of the Song of Moses. The first דרש of Lev. 10:16 is written at the beginning of the line. Puncta extraordinaria placed on the ten words fixed by the masorah. Majuscular and minuscular letter in accordance with the rules. The inverted letter nun is placed before and after Num. 10:35-36; 'pe lafuf' is very frequent.

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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