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

Title

A treatise on reading and writing of the Pentateuch and the Hafṭarot.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2537 a
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2537_a
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

A treatise on reading and writing of the Pentateuch and the Hafṭarot.

Notes

• Damp/mould stains.
   

Extent

118 folios; 118 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Kaleb Afendopolo. Pathshegen Kethab Had-Dat, Etc. Hebrew & Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2537.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 23; written lines: 23; Uniform layout. Visible hard-point ruling. Catchwords on every page.

Script

Oriental semi-cursive script of the 19th century. Mosheh ha-Levi: his name inscribed on folio 118v.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 08 July 1882: inscribed, folio [120v].
   

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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