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

Title

Torah (תורה)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 9881
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9881
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

Three fragments of the Pentateuch.

Notes

• Fragments extremely damaged by damp and mould.
   
• Dark staining.
   
• Repaired and inlaid before rebinding.
   

Extent

20 folios; 20 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Biblical Fragments. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Or. 9881.'

Layout

Columns: 3; ruled lines: 20 23; written lines: 20 23; Non-uniform layout. Complete ruling by hard-point visible. Traces of pricking on the outer margins only. Masorah magna and parva variously executed.

Script

Yemenite square script of the 16th century and Oriental square script of the 12th to 13th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 149; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed, [21v].
   

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 — Shemot שמות
• fol. 2r — Ṿa-yiḳra ויקרא
• fol. 4r — Bereshit-Shemot בראשית-שמות