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

Title

Perush ha-Torah (פרוש התורה)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2853
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2853
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Germany

Summary

An anonymous commentary on the Pentateuch.

Notes

• Imperfect at the beginning and at the end.
   
• Lacunae after folios: 61, 71 and 227.
   
• Stained and water-damaged.
   
• David Treves: inscribed, folio 1r.
   
• Censored by Domenico Irosolimitano, Italian censor (active 1575-1624): inscribed with his name, 1598 (214v); see 61.
   

Extent

233 folios; 233 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Commentary on Pentateuch. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2853.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 24 28; written lines: 24 28; Some omissions and additions supplied in the margins.

Script

Ashkenazi semi-cursive script, unpunctuated, of c16th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: N. Rabinowitz: purchased by the British Library from him on 18 April 1885, folio [235v].
   

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 — פרוש התורה
• fol. 1r — Perush ha-Torah