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

Title

Torah (תורה)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2541
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2541
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Arabic

Origin

Place

IrakIran

Summary

Fragments of the Pentateuch written in Arabic characters.

Notes

• The black ink in the fragment of Genesis is nearly entirely faded.
   

Extent

98 folios; 98 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house.

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 13; written lines: 13; Uniform layout. Extant beginnings of weekly sections marked by فرس' in the margin. The number of verses of the preceding weekly section marked by Arabic letters. The beginnings of sedarim marked in the margin. Punctuation provided in red ink.

Script

Naskhi hand of 10th 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 [99v].
   

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. 9r — Exodus