Metadata: Pentateuch
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- British Library
- Holding institution (official language):
- British Library
- Postal address:
- 96 Euston Road London Greater London United Kingdom NW1 2DB
- Web address:
- http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/index.html
- Email:
- Email: mss@bl.uk
- Reference number:
- Add MS 15423
- Title:
- Pentateuch
- Title (official language):
- Pentateuch
- Date(s):
- 1447/1467
- Language:
- English
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 143 folios
- Scope and content:
- The Pentatuech, with vowel-points and accents.Fols 1r-143vTorah.תורהNote: No masoretic rubrics are found in the manuscript, except for several instances of centre-marks and קרי.Decoration note: Decorated initial-word panels in colours and gold accompanied by partial foliate borders at the beginnings of the books. (Fols 1r, 35v, 65v, 87r, 117r)Decoration note: Decorated initial-word panels with pen-flourishing inhabited by animals, masks, human figures, floral motifs in violet and red ink, at the beginning of the parashiyot. (Fols 4r, 7r, 10r, 13v, 15v, 18r, 21r, 24v, 27r, 30v, 38v, 41v, 44v, 47v, 49v, 52r, 54r, 57r, 60r, 63r, 68v, 70v, 73r, 74v, 77r, 79r, 80v, 83v, 84v, 90v, 94v, 97v, 100v, 103r, 105r, 107v, 111v, 114r, 119v, 123r, 126v, 129v, 132v, 135v, 138v, 139v, 140v, 142v)Decoration note: Coat of arms included into the border erased and overpainted decorated with foliate scroll. (Fol 1r)References: Sacred: Books of the Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, Islam. (London: British Library, 2007), p. 114 [exhibition catalogue]. Nurit Pasternak, 'Together and Apart: Hebrew Manuscripts as Testimonies to Encounters of Jews and Christians in Fifteenth-century Florence: the Makings, the Clients, Censorship' [Hebrew] (Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Senate of the Hebrew University, 2009), p. 255. Ilana Tahan, Hebrew Manuscripts: The Power of Script and Image. (London, British Library, 2007), pp. 34-35.Fols 1r-35rGenesis.Fols 35r-65vExodus.Fols 65v-87rLeviticus.Fols 87r-117rNumbers.Fols 117r-143vDeuteronomy.
- Archival history:
- The Reverend Theodore Williams of Hendon (owner), (1824): his motto 'Deus alit me' (God sustains me) above his armorial shield of a fess, 3 crescents, 3 birds, and a bird on top of the shield (front cover), and the monogram 'T.W.' and the motto (back cover). Prince Augustus Frederick (owner) (b. 1773, d. 1843), duke of Sussex: his bookplate, front flyleaf (i)r; his sale, January 18, 1844, lot 365; purchased by Thorpe. Thomas Thorpe (bookseller): purchased by him for £25 4s: annotated sale catalogue in the History and Classics Department.
- Subject terms:
- Torah (religious text)
- Access, restrictions:
- You need to be a registered Reader in order to request items to a Reading Room.
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue see http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS032-003367297Digital version see http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_15423Guide to Hebrew Collections see https://www.bl.uk/collection-guides/hebrew-collections
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
