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

Title

Tana"kh (תנ"ך)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2543
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2543
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Arabic

Origin

Place

Yemen

Summary

Four Biblical fragments containing Hebrew text in phonetic Arabic transcription.

Notes

• Consists of four parts of originally different codices.
   

Extent

119 folios; 119 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house.

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 8 12; written lines: 8 12; Uniform layout.

Script

Four Naskhi hands of approximately 10th to 12th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 08 July 1882 , folio [122v].
   

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 — Jeremiah
• fol. 103r — Genesis
• fol. 110r — Leviticus
• fol. 116r — Ezekiel