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

Title

Torah (תורה)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2585
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2585
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Judeo-Arabic

Origin

Summary

A small part of the books of Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy in Saʻadia Gaon's translation.

Notes

• The manuscript is imperfect at the beginning and at the end. There is also a lenghty lacuna after folio 2.
   
• Many leaves are more or less damaged.
   

Extent

100 folios; 100 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house.

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 19; written lines: 19; Uniform layout. Visible ruling, executed with mastara.

Script

Oriental square script, probably of 14th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Musuem from him on 08 July 1882.
   

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 — Leviticus
• fol. 10v — Numbers
• fol. 62v — Deuteronomy