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_1457.4
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

Language

Origin

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

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