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

Title

Torah

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2704
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2704
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Jewish Babylonian Aramaic (ca. 200-1200 CE); Judeo-Arabic

Origin

Place

Yemen.

Summary

A large part of the books of Numbers and Deuteronomy with a verse-by-verse translation into Aramaic and Arabic, provided with a simple superlinear punctuation.

Notes

• Many pages damaged and stained, ink partially faded. Some of the pages used as a scrapbook.
   

Extent

Part I: Folios 1-48 . Part II: Folios 49-56.;

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM in-house.

Layout

Part I: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 24; written lines: 24; Part II: 2 column(s); ruled lines: 22; written lines: 22;

Script

Yemenite square script with punctutation, probably of 15th century.Part I: Yemenite square script, probably of 14th century.Part II: Yemenite square script of 14th to 15th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 12 January 1884 ([58v]).
   

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 — Numbers
• fol. 49r — Deuteronomy