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

Title

Bereshit (בראשית)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2414
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2414
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Yemen

Summary

Genesis, with punctuation and accents, accompanied with masorah magna and parva.

Notes

• Rashi's commentary given in the margin (semi-cursive writing of 17th century) of folio 29r.
   
• Previous owner's note, 3v: הצעיר שלום בן שלמה הכהןowner יצו.
   

Extent

89 folios; 89 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 17; written lines: 17; Uniform layout. Visible pricking; ruling executed with hard-point on the hair-side of the leaf. Writing in one column, with masoretic punctuation and masorah magna and parva. Masorah magna in one line of the upper and of the lower margin, where it sometimes creates a round corner. The beginning of a weekly section marked by an ornamental פ, and the liturgical subdivisions marked by Hebrew letters in the margins.

Script

Square Yemenite character, of about 15th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Mr Nicolas Mavrocordato: purchased by the British Museum from him on 08 October 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. 3v — Genesis