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

Title

The Pentateuch, provided with vowel-points and accents, masorah magna and parva.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 5845
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_5845
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

The Pentateuch, provided with vowel-points and accents, masorah magna and parva.

Notes

• Usage stains.
   
• Small rodent damage at foot.
   

Extent

185 folios; 185 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Pentateuch with Masorah Magna & Parva. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 5845.'

Layout

Columns: 2; ruled lines: 24; written lines: 24; Uniform layout. Hard-point ruling. Flesh side and hair side distinguishable. Large square initial words.

Script

Sefardi square script of the 15th century, punctuated. Avraham ben Yehoshu῾ah ha-Kohen: inscribed in the colophon, folio 185v.

Provenance

• Shelomoh ben Yitsḥaḳ Alṭaras
   
• Acquisition: M. Wachsler: purchased by the British Museum from him 15 October 1900: inscribed, (flyleaf [iii]v).
   

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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