Description of British Library, Or 2365: Torah (תורה) contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library 2022-12-05 2022-12-05 These images and the content of British Library Or 2365: 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 2365: 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. Shelomoh: inscribed with his name in a partially illegible Hebrew inscription, undated (1r). ... ben Yosef: inscribed with his name in a partially erased Hebrew inscription, undated (1r). A Judeo-Arabic note (202v). 2 erased inscriptions in Hebrew characters (202v). 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 2365 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2365 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts Pentateuch with punctuation, accompanied by masorah magna and masorah parva. Hebrew Torah (תורה) 1r Genesis 51v Exodus 93r Leviticus 123v Numbers 165v Deuteronomy

Paper

 203 folios; 203 folios Columns: 2; ruled lines: 19; written lines: 19; Uniform layout. Ruled with mastara. All books except Leviticus begin a new column. The beginning of a section marked in the margin by an ornamental pen and ink design, with פ in the centre. Each pericope divided into 7 sections numbered with Hebrew letters in the margin. The masorah magna in 1-3 lines in the upper and 2-7 lines in the lower margin. Yemenite square script of 14th century, with punctuation. Numerous decorated parashah signs, in ink. Masorah magna in micrographical design. Decorated panel for masoretic notes, unfinished, in ink.

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Pentateuch. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2365.'

Between 1300 and 1399

Yemen Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 23 July 1881: inscribed on folio ([204v]).