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

Title

Torah (תורה)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2350
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2350
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Judeo-Arabic

Origin

Place

Yemen

Summary

The Pentatuech and Hafṭarot, with vowel-points and accents, masorah magna and parva. Mahberet ha-tigan is prefixed.

Notes

• Ezra ben Shalom ben Zekhariah ben Gad ben Meshulam ben Ḥātar Al-Ḥābishi; inscribed in the colophon, folio 305r.
   

Extent

411 folios; 411 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house binding.

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 17; written lines: 17; Imperfect at the beginning and at the end. Uniform layout.

Decoration

Two full-page illuminated borders. Masorah in micrographic designs.

Script

Yemenite square and semi-cursive script, punctuated, of the 15th century. Mosheh ben ῾Amram ibn Naṣr ben ῾Ezra ibn Ḥābish; inscribed with his name in the colophon, 305r and on folios 54r, 240r:אנא ספרא משה בן עמרם בן עזרא, (כתבתי זאת התורה ואני בן שבע ושלושים שנה).

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. 1r — Maḥberet ha-tigan
• fol. 40v — Genesis
• fol. 105v — Exodus
• fol. 160v — Leviticus
• fol. 200r — Numbers
• fol. 255v — Deuteronomy
• fol. 310v — Hafṭarot