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A Sheet of an Eighth Century Synagogue Scroll

A Sheet of an Eighth Century Synagogue Scroll A SHEET OF AN EIGHTH CENTURY SYNAGOGUE SCROLL BY S. A. BIRNBAUM London The sheet in question is in the library of Jews College, London. How and when it got there is not known but it only recently came to light during the removal of the College. Miss R. P. LEHMANN, the Librarian, drew my attention to the MS and asked my opinion about it. The present article is the result. I. DESCRIPTION A. EXTERNAL FEATURES The material is a light brown leather. The sheet is about 155 cms in lenght, not counting the folded edges on the right and left where it had been sewn to the preceding and following sheets. The present height of the sheet ranges from 48.1 cms to 53.2 cms. The top and bottom edges are not the original ones - except perhaps a small part of the right-hand bottom corner - the sheet as we have it now being cut in a somewhat irregular fashion. However, the original margin was hardly much wider. The height of the written surface is 40.8 - 42 cms (including the ascender of lamedh). The width of the columns-of which there are seven-is generally 7.9 cms; one, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Vetus Testamentum Brill

A Sheet of an Eighth Century Synagogue Scroll

Vetus Testamentum , Volume 9 (1): 122 – Jan 1, 1959

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 1959 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0042-4935
eISSN
1568-5330
DOI
10.1163/156853359X00195
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Abstract

A SHEET OF AN EIGHTH CENTURY SYNAGOGUE SCROLL BY S. A. BIRNBAUM London The sheet in question is in the library of Jews College, London. How and when it got there is not known but it only recently came to light during the removal of the College. Miss R. P. LEHMANN, the Librarian, drew my attention to the MS and asked my opinion about it. The present article is the result. I. DESCRIPTION A. EXTERNAL FEATURES The material is a light brown leather. The sheet is about 155 cms in lenght, not counting the folded edges on the right and left where it had been sewn to the preceding and following sheets. The present height of the sheet ranges from 48.1 cms to 53.2 cms. The top and bottom edges are not the original ones - except perhaps a small part of the right-hand bottom corner - the sheet as we have it now being cut in a somewhat irregular fashion. However, the original margin was hardly much wider. The height of the written surface is 40.8 - 42 cms (including the ascender of lamedh). The width of the columns-of which there are seven-is generally 7.9 cms; one,

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Vetus TestamentumBrill

Published: Jan 1, 1959

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