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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

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

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.
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    Section: ספר תורה
    Section: Sefer Torah