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Title

The Pentateuch, with vowel-points and accents, accompanied by masorah magna and parva, in two volumes.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 9886
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9886
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

The Pentateuch, with vowel-points and accents, accompanied by masorah magna and parva, in two volumes.

Notes

• Paper fixed in numerous places with silk gauze.
   
• Missing, damaged parts are supplied by a later hand. His colophon is on folio 151v: נשלם תקון זה התאג' .. שנת ב' אלפים ומאה וארבעין שנין לשטרי במאתא כיואן .. והמתקן חתכי [=סאלם בא"ת ב"ש] בן כבוד אבא מנחם בן סעדיה.
   

Extent

151 folios; 151 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

In-house, half-bound. Spine: 'Pentateuch. Hebrew. II. Brit. Mus. Oriental 9886.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 20; written lines: 20; Uniform layout. Main text mostly in one column, surrounded with the masorah in the margin. Several leaves have been patched.

Script

Yemenite square script of the 15th century., punctuated Probably written by the same scribe as Oxford, Bodleian MS. Oppenheim Add. 4° 97a. The latter was written by Yosef ben Benayah in 1478 (colophon on folio 315v).

Provenance

• חמדי, יוסף בן זכריה
   
• Acquisition: Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 325: inscribed with his name (folios 1r, 151v); purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed (back flyleaf [ii]v).
   

Related resources

• Catalogue of Hebrew Manuscripts in the Gaster Collection, the British Library, London (London: Hebrew Section. Oriental and India Office Collection, 1996).

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