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Title

Bereshit u-shemot (בראשית ושמות)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 1468
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1468
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Yemen

Summary

Genesis and Exodus, with punctuation and accents, accompanied with masorah magna and parva.

Notes

• Most of the folios are mutilated or damaged, restored later on paper.
   
• Previous owner's note, folio 1r: אשתרא לנפסה מן עין מאלה ולדי יוסף הב"ה יזכהו להגות בו הו וזרעו וזרע זרעו עד סוף כל הדורות ילדי (ואלדי) יסתעירהו ומא ירדה ישכנו נחש ועם יי בשלום. הצעיר שכר ן' שכר סרי.
   

Extent

161 folios; 161 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house binding.

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 17; written lines: 17; Visible pricking; ruling executed with mastara. Writing in one column, with masoretic punctuation and masorah magna and parva. Masorah magna occupies one line of the upper and of the lower margin. Catchwords are only partially preserved, due to some mutilation of pages. There is a lacuna after folio 107. Each pericope is divided into seven liturgical sections marked by coloured Hebrew letters in the margin. Each pericope is marked by a coloured ornamental design in the margin.

Script

Square Yemenite character, of about 15th or 16th century.

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. 1v — Genesis
• fol. 87r — Exodus