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

Title

Torah (תורה)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2542
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2542
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Arabic

Origin

Summary

Several portions of Hebrew Pentateuch written in Arabic characters, provided with Hebrew vowel-points and accents.

Notes

• The extant leaves are nearly all more or less damaged.
   

Extent

251 folios; 251 folios

Support

Paper

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 15; written lines: 15; 1 column with 15 lines a page. Vowel-points and accents are given in red ink. The beginning of the weekly portions were marked by ؤاراش (i.e. 'פרש) in the margin - this mark is preserved only in a few instances, folio 49r, 171r. Numbers of verses at the end of sections indicated by Arabic letters. Number of verses in each of the books of the Torah given in Arabic transcription of the Hebrew rubrics.

Script

A Naskhi hand of probably 11th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 8 July 1882.
   

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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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Genesis (24:28-28:14)
• fol. 43r — Exodus
• fol. 103r — Leviticus
• fol. 144r — Numbers
• fol. 203v — Deuteronomy (1:1-31:9)
• fol. 250r — Exodus (40:9-16, 33-38)