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Detailed record for Additional 15283
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| Title |
Pentateuch, Haftarot and the Five Scrolls (Hamesh megillot) |
| Origin |
Portugal, Central (Lisbon) |
| Date |
Last quarter of the 15th century |
| Language |
Hebrew |
| Script |
African Sephardi semi-cursive script, punctuated |
| Decoration |
5 frontispieces in colours and gold (ff. 1, 48v, 88, 114v, 152). 4 decorated initial-word panels in colours and gold (f. 242v, 248v, 255, 258v). 1 embellished panel in colours and gold (f. 245v). 1 embellished panel with pen-flourishing, in mauve ink (f. 42). |
| Dimensions in mm |
195 x 140 (120 x 85) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 265 (+ 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves and an unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the end); f. 1 is a foliated parchment flyleaf |
| Collation |
33 quires: i-x8 (ff. 2-81), xi6 (ff. 82-87), xii-xxxii8 (ff. 88-255), xxxiiiten (ff. 256-265). |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. |
| Provenance |
English description of the manuscript (f. [v]).
Prince Augustus Frederick (b. 1773, d. 1843), duke of Sussex: his armorial book-plate (inside back cover); his sale 2 August 1844, lot 315: inscribed (f. [266v]), purchased by the British Museum by Frederick Madden for £37. |
| Notes |
Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable. Folio 185 is a later reconstruction. Gilt edges. |
| Select bibliography |
George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), I, no. 84.
Gabrielle Sed-Rajna, Manuscrits hebreux de Lisbonne (Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scentifique, 1970), pp. 74-75.
Lisbon Bible: 1482. British Library Or. 2626, introduction by Gabrielle Sed-Rajna (Tel Aviv: Nahar Miskal, 1988), pp. 16-17 [facsimile edition].
Sacred: Books of the Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, Islam (London: British Library, 2007), p. 40 [exhibition catalogue].
Ilana Tahan, Hebrew Manuscripts: The Power of Script and Image (London, British Library, 2007), pp. 66-67. |
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f. 2
Frontispiece |
f. 48v
Frontispiece |
f. 88
Frontispiece |
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f. 114v
Frontispiece |
f. 242v
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 242v
Decorated initial-word panel |
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f. 258v
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 258v
Decorated initial-word panel |
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