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

Or 1457.3 Sefer Torah (ספר תורה)

Title

Sefer Torah (ספר תורה)

Funders

The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 1457.3
(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

Staining and water damage throughout, in patches.
Dirt, mud, accretions, deliberate erasures.
Some dark, contracted edges.
Worming.
Folds.
Some abraded surfaces and delamination.
Ink falking in parts, with losses of text.
Ink offset on verso.

Extent

17 membranes, 37 columns.; 17 membranes, 37 columns.

Support

Leather

Binding

BM in-house. Boxed.

Layout

Columns: 37; ruled lines: 50 51; written lines: 50 51; Uniform layout. Ruling by hard point. Visible pricking and stiching of membranes. 37 columns in total, one to six columns per membrane. No tagin on letters. In some fragments ח is arched. Special shapes of letters occur: the inverted נ placed before and after Num. 10:35-36, פ' לפוף is frequent. Columns generally begin with a new verse. Several instances of majuscular and minuscular letters. The "puncta extraordinaria" placed on the words fixed by masorah.

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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Section: ספר תורה
Section: Sefer Torah