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

Title

Torah (תורה)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 1467
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1467
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew;

Origin

Place

Persia

Summary

A large fragment of the Pentateuch with Targum Onḳelos and masorah magna and parva.

Extent

121 folios; 121 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM/BL in-house binding. Spine: 'Levit.-Deuter. with Targum. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1467.'

Layout

Columns: 2; ruled lines: 27; written lines: 27; Catchwords and numbering of the quires in Hebrew letters at the left-hand lower corner of the last page, partially preserved. Hardly discernible numbering of the quire at the right-hand upper corner of the first page of the quire. Vertical lines bounding the text of each column. The writing depends from the ruled line. Flesh side and hair side are distinguishable. Ruling is visible. First quire (folios 1r-11r) is an addition.

Script

Yemenite square script with superlinear and ordinary punctutation (; Oriental square script with superlinear and ordinary punctuation (

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 24 November 1877 (123v).
   

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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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Leviticus
• fol. 33v — Numbers
• fol. 78r — Deuteronomy