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Title

Torah, hafṭarot u-megilot (תורה, הפטרות ומגילות)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2786
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2786
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

Pentateuch with Hafṭarot and the Five Scrolls, with punctuation and accents. Rashi's commentary on the first three chapters of Genesis.

Extent

256 folios; 256 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 21 22; written lines: 20 21; The beginning of each book, and in the Pentateuch and Hafṭarot of each parashah and hafṭarah, is marked by the opening word being written in large ornamental characters. Four blank lines left blank after the end of each book.

Decoration

Large ornamental initial words at the beginning of each book.

Script

Ashkenazi square script of 15th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Dr Israel Bak, publisher of Hebrew books in Jerusalem; bought from him by the British Museum on 24 June 1884: inscribed: folio [258v].
   

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. 1v — Genesis
• fol. 63v — Exodus
• fol. 111r — Leviticus
• fol. 143v — Numbers
• fol. 184r — Deuteronomy
• fol. 220r — Hafṭarot for the four Sabbaths
• fol. 223r — Hafṭarot for Passover
• fol. 226v — Hafṭarot for Pentecost
• fol. 227v — Hafṭarot for the 9th of Av
• fol. 228v — Hafṭarot for the New Year
• fol. 230r — Hafṭarot for Yom Kipur
• fol. 232r — Hafṭarot for Sukot
• fol. 235r — Esther
• fol. 241v — Song of Songs
• fol. 244r — Ruth
• fol. 247r — Lamentations
• fol. 249v — Ecclesiastes