[Four Torah Scroll columns].
[ארבעה שורות מספר תורה].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner.

Standardized Title:

Bible. Numbers. Selections.

תנ"ך. במדבר. קטעים.

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Jews--Egypt--13th century--History--Sources.

Jews.

Jews--Egypt--14th century--History--Sources.

Jews--Iraq--13th century--History--Sources.

Jews--Iraq--14th century--History--Sources.

Penn Provenance:

Purchased in Cairo (Dropsie College Library files), possibly before 1920.

Formerly owned by the Dropsie College Library.

Physical Description:

4 leaves : parchment ; 495 x 130 mm and smaller.

Place of Publication:

[Egypt? Iraq?], [12--?-13--?].

[מצרים? איראק?], [12--?-13--?].

Language Note:

Hebrew.

Summary:

Four columns cut from a 13th-14th century Torah scroll; the first leaf is from a column from Numbers XVIII-XIX; the second contains text from XVII-XVIII; the third contains text from XVII; and the fourth contains text from XVI.

Notes:

Ms. fragments.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Layout: Written in columns of 42 lines, column-ruled.

Origin: Written possibly in Egypt (script, parchment, provenance) or otherwise Iraq, approximately 13th-14th centuries.

Script: Written in a medieval Oriental Safrut (ritual script), similar in style to some Torah Scroll fragments from Egypt (the ל has an additional downward serif at the top crown, in the medieval style; tagin (three crowns over ש-ע-ט-נ-ז-ג-צ, single crowns above specific letters such as ב-ה).

Cited as:

Four Torah Scroll fragments. (UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 9). Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1420387753

Access Restriction:

Access to this item is subject to staff review (housed in oversized blue post-bound folder no. 7).