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

Title

תורה (Torah)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 4445
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_4445
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

EgyptPalestine

Summary

Pentateuch with vowel-points and accents, masorah magna and parva, aka London Codex.

Notes

• A considerable number of leaves are mutilated.
   
• Some folios are more or less damaged (e.g. folios 122r, 122v, 123r, 123v, 124r, 124v, 126r, 126v, 127r, 127v).
   
• Folios 1r-28v, 125r-125v , 128r-128v and 159r-186v, which are paper, were added in 1540.
   
• An illegible owner's note in Persian (in Hebrew characters), folio 186v.
   

Extent

186 folios; 186 folios

Support

Mixed

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Layout

Columns: 3; ruled lines: 21; written lines: 21; Ruling is visible. Several lacunae. Each pericope divided into sections. The upper perpendicular stroke of the letter lamed is considerably lengthened out in the first line of a page. Parts of letter aleph are generally used to fill up the line The left side of the columns is irregular, the scribed not having used the elongated letters.

Script

Oriental square script of probably 10th century, with more recent paper additions with Yemenite square script of the 16th century. Nissi ben Daniel, probably also the punctuator of the manuscript (see 141-145): inscribed in the masoretic notes, folios 40r, 113v, 139r.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Mrs C. D. Sassoon & Co. : purchased by the British Museum on 09 May 1891, inscribed folio .
   

Related resources

• Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Genesis
• fol. 42r — Exodus
• fol. 85r — Leviticus
• fol. 115r — Numbers
• fol. 158v — Deuteronomy