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Title

Torah u-neviʼim rishonim (תורה ונביאים ראשונים)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2415
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2415
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Africa, N.

Summary

Pentateuch and the Former Prophets, provided with vowel-points and accents.

Notes

• A number of leaves are missing, folios 41 and 115 are mutilated.
   
• Marginal note of the owner on folio 122r.
   
• Musa ibn Sulaiman ʻIraḳi, inscribed with his name on folio 2r, attesting that the manuscript is a property of ʻImrān: מוסי אבן סלימאן עראקי יצו' אן אלכתאב חק עמראן יצו'.
   

Extent

215 folios; 215 folios

Foliation

The Hebrew foliation shows that the first extant leaf was originally the 17th.

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Layout

Columns: 2; ruled lines: 25; written lines: 25; Ruling with hard point, pricking is not currently visible. Several lacunae. The books of Leviticus (42r) and Kings (178r) begin a new leaf, and between the other books there is a blank of four lines.

Decoration

1 half-border on page 108v.

Script

Sefardi semi-cursive script with supralinear punctuation, probably of the 14th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Nic. Mavrocordato: purchased by the British Museum from him on 08 October 1881 ([216v]).
   

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. 14v — Exodus
• fol. 42r — Leviticus
• fol. 60r — Numbers
• fol. 86r — Deuteronomy
• fol. 108v — Joshua
• fol. 124v — Judges
• fol. 140r — Samuel
• fol. 178r — Kings