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

Title

Bereshit u-Shemot (בראשית ושמות)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2366
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2366
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Yemen

Summary

Genesis and Exodus, with simple superlinear punctuation and accents.

Notes

• Considerably stained and blurred in parts.
   

Extent

118 folios; 118 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 17; written lines: 17; Visible pricking; ruling executed with hard-point. Writing in one column, with superlinear masoretic punctuation.

Decoration

Pen-decorations.

Script

Square Yemenite scrupt of about 15th century.

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, [119v] .
   

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. 67v — Exodus