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

Title

Torah (תורה)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2363
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2363
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew;

Origin

Place

IranIrak

Summary

Pentateuch with Targum Onḳelos and masorah magna and parva.

Notes

• A considerable number of leaves are soiled and mutilated, some of them seriously damaged.
   
• Numerous modest geometric and floral motifs in the margins, in colours or in brown ink.
   
• The middle word marked on folios 105r, 107v, between the columns.
   
• Avraham ben Natan: inscribed with his name, 212v.
   

Extent

212 folios; 212 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM/BL in-house binding. Spine: 'Pentateuch with Targum. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2363.'

Layout

Columns: 1 2; ruled lines: 29; written lines: 27 29; Ruling is visible. Erasures (e.g., 47r, 166r, 192r). Several lacunae. Masorah magna generally occupies two lines in the lower margin; in the upper margin it varies from three to five lines (due to a later hand). Each pericope divided into 7 sections, numbered with Hebrew letters in margins. Indications on weekly readings added with later hand. Centre-marks for each book of the Pentateuch. Masoretic summary after the end of the Pentateuch.

Decoration

1 carpet page with micrographic design, in colours. Ten Commandments in 2 decorated panels, in colours. 4 masoretic notes in decorated panels. 6 full borders, in colours. Numerous decorated parashah signs, in colours. Numerous coloured initial words at the beginning of the parashiyot. Numerous modest geometric and floral motifs in the margins, in colours or in brown ink.

Script

Oriental square script (Persian?) with superlinear punctuation, probably of 11th to 12th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 23 July 1881.
   

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 — Genesis
• fol. 52v — Exodus
• fol. 98r — Leviticus
• fol. 130r — Numbers
• fol. 173r — Deuteronomy