Or 1458 Sefer Torah (ספר תורה)
Title
Sefer Torah (ספר תורה)Funders
- The Polonsky Foundation
Call number
Or 1458(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)
Alternate identifiers
Publisher
British LibraryLanguage
HebrewOrigin
Between 1400 and 1499
Summary
The Pentateuch scroll.
Notes
- Worming in several phases (repairs wormed in different pattern), grazed surface.
- Surface delamination, deliberate erasures.
- Weak edges with tears and losses, a few parts folded under.
- Creases from rolling.
- Inks slightly flaking. Some ink spills.
- Pleat covering text.
- Soil accretions.
- Occasional contracted areas at edge with dark, brittle, flaking surface.
- Usage and damp stains.
Extent
65 membranes, 227 columns.; 65 membranes, 227 columns.Support
LeatherBinding
BM in-house. Boxed.Layout
Script
Related resources
- Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.
Licenses
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Section: ספר תורה
Section: Sefer Torah