Description of British Library, Or 1467: Torah (תורה)contributorIlana TahancatalogerAgata PaluchThe Polonsky FoundationBritish Library2022-11-292022-11-29These images and the content of British Library Or 1467: Torah (תורה) are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.To the extent possible under law, British Library has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about British Library Or 1467: Torah (תורה). This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.United KingdomLondonBritish LibraryHebrew Manuscripts Digitisation ProjectOr 1467http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1467https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscriptsA large fragment of the Pentateuch with Targum Onḳelos and masorah magna and parva.Hebrew; Torah (תורה)1rLeviticus33vNumbers78rDeuteronomy
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121 folios; 121 folios Columns: 2; ruled lines: 27; written lines: 27; Catchwords and numbering of the quires in Hebrew letters at the left-hand lower corner of the last page, partially preserved. Hardly discernible numbering of the quire at the right-hand upper corner of the first page of the quire. Vertical lines bounding the text of each column. The writing depends from the ruled line. Flesh side and hair side are distinguishable. Ruling is visible. First quire (folios 1r-11r) is an addition.Yemenite square script with superlinear and ordinary punctutation (; Oriental square script with superlinear and ordinary punctuation (
PersiaAcquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 24 November 1877 (123v).