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_1459
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

Language

Origin

Summary

The Pentateuch scroll.

Notes

• Slight tidemark at head. Recurrent damp damage with contractions, losses and a dark brittle margin.
   
• Occasional surface abrasion or delamination, a few deliberate erasures.
   
• A few pleats slightly obscuring text.
   
• Numerous edge tears and wear.
   
• A few old repairs, with losses.
   
• Usage stains, slight mould spots and a few areas with liquid trickles.
   

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