Berlin, SBB MS. Or. Fol. 1216
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Berlin, SBB MS. Or. Fol. 1216
Erfurt 7
Staatsbibliothek Zu Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
Item Nature
Scroll
Writing
Parchment
Brown (iron-gall)
Quill
Ruling
There is ruling
Hard point
Grid of single vertical and horizontal lines
60
61
Date
13th Century CE
Prof. Judith Olszowy-Schlanger in a personal conversation helped date the following scrolls written in the mid-13th century. This dating differ from what is written in the online catalogue of the Berlin State Library, where the dating is 14th century,
At the Erfurt Collection website: (www.juedisches-leben.erfurt.de/jl/en/middle-ages/hebrew_manuscripts/research/index, accessed 09.04.2021) the dating is 13th /14th century.
Place
Ashkenaz
Ashkenaz
Language
Hebrew
Subject Field
Bible
Vowels
No vowels or accents
Other
Written before 1349. In this year they came into the possession of the city council of Erfurt during a pogrom related to the Black Death. Even though there are no dated inscriptions on the scrolls themselves and thus an exact date is unavailable, it must predate 1349.
F. Hubmann, and J. Oesch, “Betrachtungen zu den Torarollen der Erfurter Handschriften-Sammlung. Untersuchungen zu Gliederung und Sonderzeichen.” in F. Bussert – S. Laubenstein (eds.), Die jüdische Gemeinde von Erfurt und die SchUM-Gemeinden. Kulturelles Erbe und Vernetzung. Erfurter Schriften zur jüdischen Geschichte 1 (Erfurt:, Jena, Bussert & Stadeler, 2012), pp. 96–117; E. Caspi, “Gevilim Nisrafim be-Šabbat Roš Chodeš Parašat ha-Ḥodeš” in Sh. Y. L. Hoffmann and M. D. Chechik (eds.), Yerushaseinu, vol. 7, (Bene Berak: Machon Moreshet Ashkenaz, 2014), pp. 97-101; J. Penkower “The Ashkenazi Pentateuch Tradition as Reflected in the Erfurt Hebrew Bible Codices and Torah Scrolls”, in Zu Bild und Text im jüdisch-christlichen Kontext im Mittelalter, in F. Bussert – S. Laubenstein – M. Stürzebrecher (eds), Erfurter Schriften zur jüdischen Geschichte 3 )Erfurt: Jena, Bussert & Stadeler, 2014.(, pp. 118 – 141; A. Martini, “Die Geschichte der Erfurter Handschriftensammlung”, in: Die hebräischen Handschriften der Erfurter Sammlung (2018), https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/erfurter_sammlung/index.html and https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/erfurter_sammlung/dokumentation/geschichte_handschriften/index.html (last accessed 9.04.2021); M. Farnadi-Jerusálmi “Palaeographic and Halakhic aspects of the Erfurt Torah Scrolls”, in, in C. Bergmann – M. Stürzebecher (eds.), Ritual Objects in Ritual Contexts, Erfurter Schriften zur jüdischen Geschichte 6 (Erfurt: Jena, Bussert & Stadeler, 2020); Erfurt Collection: www.juedisches-leben.erfurt.de/jl/en/middle-ages/hebrew_manuscripts/research/index (last accessed 09.04.2021);
Nehring, Bonnerot, Gordon, & Rabin. (2021). Writing and Correcting a Torah Scroll in Germany of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries (Version Print). Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin, 7, 123–147. http://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.9870;
Bonnerot, Olivier, & Rabin, Ira. (2022). X-Ray Fluorescence and Reflectography Data from Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin manuscript Ms. or. fol. 1216 (Erfurt 7) [Data set]. http://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.10277
N. Gordon, Olivier Bonnerot, Ira Rabin. (2020) Inks Used to Write the Divine Name in a Thirteenth-Century Ashkenazic Torah Scroll: Erfurt 7 (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Ms. or. fol. 1216)Manuscript Cultures. Universität Hamburg. https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bam/frontdoor/index/index/year/2021/docId/52965
An Unknown Ashkenazic Torah Scroll from the Early 13th Century : a Palaeographical Study / Farnadi-Jerusálmi, Mark in "Henoch : studi storico-testuali su giudaismo e cristianesimo in età antica e medievale : 43, 1, 2021, Brescia : Editrice Morcelliana, 2021 , 2611-8076 - Casalini id: 5189735" - P. 105-135
