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

Title

Torah (תורה)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2349
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2349
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Judeo-Arabic

Origin

Place

Yemen

Summary

The Pentatuech, with vowel-points and accents, masorah magna and parva. Maḥberet ha-tigan and a treatise on Hebrew letters in Judeo-Arabic are prefixed.

Notes

• David ben Avihesed ben Benyamin ben Yosef at-Tawili, his name inscribed in the colophon, folio 144r.
   

Extent

145 folios; 145 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

Pre-1600 binding. An original leather box binding with decorative brass bosses and corners.

Layout

Columns: 2; ruled lines: 25; written lines: 25; Four blank lines are found between any two books. The beginning of each pericope is marked in the margin by a large ornamental letter samekh. Each pericope is divided into 7 subsections, numbered in Hebrew letters in the margin. The masorah magna occupies 3 to 5 lines in the upper and 3 to 6 lines in the lower margin. Numerous masoretic rubrics at the end of each book of the Torah, as well as at the end of the whole Pentateuch.

Decoration

Carpet pages of micrographic masorah

Script

Yemenite square script, punctuate, of the 15th century. David ben Benayah ben Sa'adyah ben Zekhariah, inscribed with his name in the colophon on folio 144r.

Related resources

• Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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Table of contents

• fol. 2v — Maḥberet ha-tigan
• fol. 23r — A treatise on Hebrew letters
• fol. 29v — Genesis
• fol. 58r — Exodus
• fol. 82v — Leviticus
• fol. 99v — Numbers
• fol. 123r — Deuteronomy