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

Title

Torah (תורה)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2451
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2451
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Judeo-Persian

Origin

Place

Persia

Summary

The Pentatuech, Hafṭarot and Psalms, with vowel-points and accents, masorah magna and parva, followed by a calendar in Persian.

Notes

• Colophon without names, 22 Elul 1794 [1483] (folio 286r).
   
• Colophon without names, 1795 [1484] (folio 286v).
   

Extent

378 folios; 378 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Pentateuch, Etc. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental Ms. 2451.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 18 20; written lines: 18 20; Uniform layout. Number of columns on each page varies from 18 to 20. Incomplete at the beginning. Some folios were added later (folios 7-27, 34, 59, 66). Ruling is visible. Parallel Hebrew foliation. Catchword on every verso.

Script

Oriental (Persian) semi-cursive script, punctuated. Shemu᾿el ben Aharon ben Yosef: inscribed with his name in the colophon, 1794 [1483] (361r-361v).

Provenance

• Acquisition: Adolf Neubauer (b. 1832, d. 1907), Hebrew scholar born in Hungary: purchased by the British Museum from him on 24 June 1882: inscribed ([380v]).
   

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. 62r — Exodus
• fol. 114r — Leviticus
• fol. 149r — Numbers
• fol. 190r — Deuteronomy
• fol. 214r — Hafṭarot
• fol. 289v — Psalms
• fol. 362v — A calendar