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Title

Torah, hafṭarot u-megilot (תורה, הפטרות ומגילות)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2286
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2286
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Spain

Summary

Pentateuch, Hafṭarot, and parts of the Five Scrolls, with punctuation and accents, provided with masorah magna and parva.

Notes

• Several stained pages, some being also a little damaged.
   

Extent

144 folios; 144 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM/BL in-house binding.

Layout

Columns: 2; ruled lines: 20; written lines: 20; Uniform layout. Four blank lines between the books of the Pentateuch and also between the Five Scrolls. Masorah magna on the Pentateuch and the Scrolls generally in two lines of the upper and three lines of the lower margin. The weekly sections marked with פרש' in the margin, a continuous enumeration of 54 sections being added in Hebrew letters. The commandments written in the margin or between the column where they respectively appear. No pricking currently visible. Ruling with hard point on the hair-side of folios.

Script

Sefardi square scrip of the 15th century. Moshe (ben Ya῾aḳov) Zabarah, his name inscribed with another hand on folio 103v: ספרא רבא בישראל גדול שמו הרב הקדוש שמו נודע בישראל להלל' אדונינו כמוהרר משה זאברה זיע"א אשרי איש יחזיק בזה הספר ויהיה בבית גנזיו והיתה לבני ישראל למשמרת לדרתם' להגיה ממנו' ספר תורה משה ע"ה: וזכות הרב תגן עליו ועל זרעו אכי"ר.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 09 November 1880 ([148v]).
   

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 — Genesis
• fol. 19v — Exodus
• fol. 43v — Leviticus
• fol. 60r — Numbers
• fol. 82v — Deuteronomy
• fol. 104v — Hafṭarot of the weekly sections, feast and fasts.
• fol. 137v — Ruth
• fol. 139r — Song of Songs
• fol. 141r — Ecclesiastes