Berlin, SBB MS. Or. Fol. 1216

Staatsbibliothek Zu Berlin (Berlin, Germany)

Berlin, SBB MS. Or. Fol. 1216: Main text scribe

Main text scribe

ShaATNeZ-GeS crownlets (crownlets) were made with a different ink and seemingly by a different scribe at a later stage. See page 34 in 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).

More about the research on the ink used see 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
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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

Ashkenazi

Square

Calligraphic

Bookhand

Gothic

• In the middle
• Ascenders go above the headline
• Descenders descend below the baseline

Stable

• Stable
• Smaller than the height of the line of writing

• Stable
• Smaller than the width of an average he

• Stable
• Smaller than the width of an average vav

• Irregular spacing
• Nesting

• Ascenders are equal to the height of the average letter
• Descenders are shorter than the height of the average letter

• Horizontal strokes are parallel
• Ascenders are parallel to the downstrokes
• Descenders are not parallel to the downstrokes
• Ascenders are parallel among them

There is shading