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Detailed record for Oriental 2365
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| Title |
Bible with masorah magna and parva |
| Origin |
Yemen |
| Date |
14th century |
| Language |
Hebrew |
| Script |
Yemenite square script, punctuated |
| Decoration |
Numerous decorated parashah signs, in ink. Masorah magna in micrographical design. Decorated panel for masoretic notes, unfinished, in ink (f. 123). |
| Dimensions in mm |
345 x 250 (215 x 190) in two columns |
| Official foliation |
ff. 203 ff. (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end) |
| Collation |
21 quires: i8-1 (ff. 1-7), ii-xx10 (ff. 8-197), xxisix (ff. 198-203). Catchwords and quire numbering. |
| Form |
Paper codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. |
| Provenance |
Solomon: inscribed with his name in a partially illegible Hebrew inscription, undated (f. 1).
.. ben Joseph: inscribed with his name in a partially erased Hebrew inscription, undated (f. 1).
Judeo-Arabic note (f. 202v).
2 erased inscriptions in Hebrew characters (f. 202v).
No. 46: inscribed (f. 1).
Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 23 July 1881: inscribed (f. [204v]). |
| 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. 78.
Bezalel Narkiss, Illuminations from Hebrew Bibles of Leningrad (Jerusalem: The Bialik Institute, 1990), pp. 74-75. |
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f. 109v
Decorated parashah sign. |
f. 123
Decorated panel |
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