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

Title

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_5405
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

Language

Origin

Place

Yemen

Summary

The Pentateuch scroll.

Notes

• Damage at edges: tidemark at foot, top edge dark, with lots of tears.
   
• Splits along column folds.
   
• Shedding fragments.
   
• Oversewn, and sewing split in several areas.
   
• Slight worming.
   
• Some salt accretions.
   
• Mould mottling on verso.
   

Extent

Support

Binding

Layout

Script

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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