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

Title

Torah (תורה)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 1469
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1469
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew;

Origin

Place

Yemen

Summary

A large fragment of the Pentateuch, punctuated and accentuated, with masorah magna and parva.

Extent

212 folios; 212 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Layout

Columns: 2; ruled lines: 22; written lines: 22; The writing depends from the ruled line. Visible pricking. Ruling with hard-point is visible. Folio 103 is an addition, written in one column of 28 lines. Manuscript imperfect at the beginning and at the end. Masorah magna occupies one line in the upper and in the lower margin.

Decoration

Decorated parashah signs.

Script

Yemenite square script with punctutation (folios 1r-102r); Yemenite square script executed with a different hand on folios 103r-103v.

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. 28r — Numbers
• fol. 68v — Deuteronomy