Description of British Library, Or 1455: Sefer Torah (ספר תורה)
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Ilana Tahan
cataloger
Agata Paluch
The Polonsky Foundation
British Library
2022-11-29
2022-11-29
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Lots of old repairs, sewn or glued patches recto or verso.
Very damaged edges.
Very dirty, with mould/salt accretions.
Some pleats and creases.
Stained.
Worming in part.
Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.
United Kingdom
London
British Library
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Or 1455
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The Pentateuch scroll.
Hebrew
Sefer Torah (ספר תורה)
1r
ספר תורה
1r
Sefer Torah
Leather
90 membranes, 225 columns.; 90 membranes, 225 columns.
Columns: 225; ruled lines: 50; written lines: 50; Uniform layout. Ruling by hard point, membrane by membrane. Visible pricking and stitching. 225 columns in total, one to six columns per membrane. Some tagin present. The letter ḥet is sometimes arched. Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy begins with a new column, four lines being left at the end of the preceding column. Every column commences with a new verse, most frequently beginning with the letter ו. The end of a verse marked by a dry point after the last word (omitted at the end of a section and column). Three dry points sometimes in the margin at the beginning of an open or closed section. Special arrangement of lines of the Song of Moses. The first דרש of Lev. 10:16 is written at the beginning of the line. Puncta extraordinaria placed on the ten words fixed by the masorah. Majuscular and minuscular letter in accordance with the rules. The inverted letter nun is placed before and after Num. 10:35-36; 'pe lafuf' is very frequent.
Oriental square script of the 15th century.
BM in-house. Boxed.
Between 1400 and 1499