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

Title

Torah (תורה)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2365
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2365
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Yemen

Summary

Pentateuch with punctuation, accompanied by masorah magna and masorah parva.

Notes

• Shelomoh: inscribed with his name in a partially illegible Hebrew inscription, undated (1r).
   
• ... ben Yosef: inscribed with his name in a partially erased Hebrew inscription, undated (1r).
   
• A Judeo-Arabic note (202v).
   
• 2 erased inscriptions in Hebrew characters (202v).
   

Extent

203 folios; 203 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Pentateuch. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2365.'

Layout

Columns: 2; ruled lines: 19; written lines: 19; Uniform layout. Ruled with mastara. All books except Leviticus begin a new column. The beginning of a section marked in the margin by an ornamental pen and ink design, with פ in the centre. Each pericope divided into 7 sections numbered with Hebrew letters in the margin. The masorah magna in 1-3 lines in the upper and 2-7 lines in the lower margin.

Decoration

Numerous decorated parashah signs, in ink. Masorah magna in micrographical design. Decorated panel for masoretic notes, unfinished, in ink.

Script

Yemenite square script of 14th century, with punctuation.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 23 July 1881: inscribed on folio ([204v]).
   

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. 51v — Exodus
• fol. 93r — Leviticus
• fol. 123v — Numbers
• fol. 165v — Deuteronomy