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

Or 4726 The Pentateuch scroll.

Title

The Pentateuch scroll.

Funders

The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 4726
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Between 1600 and 1799

Place: Germany

Summary

The Pentateuch scroll.

Notes

Mottling of some membranes at beginning, continuing at edges.
Dirt at edges in part.
Final protective membrane mottled yellow.

Extent

23 membranes, 121 columns.; 23 membranes, 121 columns.

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM in-house. Boxed.

Layout

Columns: 121; ruled lines: 42; written lines: 42; Uniform layout. Ruling by hard point. Visible pricking and stitching. 121 columns in total, three to eight columns per membrane. Three tagin on שעטנזגץ. Instead of the three small strokes there is an elaborate little design over the same letters when occurring in the upper line of a column. The letter ḥet arched throughout. Every column apart from one (Gen. 49:8) commences with the letter ו. Majuscular and minuscular letter in accordance with the rules.

Script

Ashkenazi square script of the 17th to 18th century.

Related resources

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

Licenses

Text

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URL

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Text

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URL

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