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

Title

Torah (תורה)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2540
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2540
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Arabic

Origin

Place

EgyptPalestine

Summary

Fragments of Exodus (chapter 1:1-8:5) written in Arabic characters.

Notes

• K. B. No. 1: inscribed, (folio 1r).
   

Extent

21 folios; 21 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house binding.

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 7 10; written lines: 7 10; Parasha Ṿa-era is marked by فرس' in gold in the margin. The punctuation is provided in red ink and the accents in green ink.

Script

Arabic Naskhi script of c10th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 8 July 1882: inscribed folio [22v].
   

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 — Exodus