Oxford. Christ Church, Library, MS 201a

Source

Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)

Library

Oxford. Christ Church, Library

Shelfmark

• Christ Church MS 201a

Biblissima authority file

• https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q214035

Date

• 1700–1799

Language

• Hebrew

Title

• ספר תורה (Torah scroll)

Description

• Complete Torah scroll with two wooden rollers and embroidered velvet mantle.
  Contents: Pentateuch, i.e. the first Five Books of Moses (Genesis, Exodus, Numbers, Leviticus and Deuteronomy).
  Extent: 54 sheets. 35.5 metres long. Width 0.5 to 0.8 m., average 0.7m.
  Layout: Layout corresponds to that of a typical Ashkenazi Torah scroll. Text is written, in average, in three columns per parchment sheet. There are 50 lines of text per column.
  Hand: Ashkenazi square script (STAM).
  Decoration: With tagin; wooden rollers have been decorated both on the outside and the inside.
  Binding: Embroidered velvet mantle.
  Provenance: Central Europe (?Czech)

Place

• Preferred form

  • Central Europe

  Original form

  • Central Europe

  Biblissima authority file

  • https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q83932

Rights

• Photo: © The Governing Body of Christ Church, Oxford. Terms of use: All rights reserved. Permission to reproduce images must be obtained from the Keeper of Special Collections at Christ Church, but is not normally withheld.

Digitisation

• https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/a6202c0a-5a65-4da8-a5fc-2fcdc8d8c784

Manifest URL

• https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/manifest/a6202c0a-5a65-4da8-a5fc-2fcdc8d8c784.json