Salonika Haftarah

Scroll Features:

Contents: Complete pasul Haftarah

Date & Provenance: 18th Century, Salonika(Greece)

Type: Sephardic

Skin: G’vil prepared following the tradition of Jews from Greece and sometimes Turkey

Ink: Black

Measurements

Height (avg): 13 ¾ in. (35 cm)

Text Height (avg): 11 ¾ in. (29.8 cm)

Line Height (avg): ¼ in. (0.635 cm)

Lines Per Column: 48

Total Number of Panels: 16

Total Number of Columns: 60

Average Letters per Line: 35-40

Pagination: Consistent until last panel, songs laid out in wider columns

Length: 26 ft. 7 3/32 in. (810.5 cm)

Paleographical Features

Tagin: None

Script Type: Sephardic (Vellish)

Characteristics: Aleph-lamed ligatures frequent, tented chet following tradition of Rabbi Tam, rounded shin, right-pointing tsade, Tetragrammaton abbreviated using two yods (with holem) for blessings, but spelled malei (with holem) in Scripture passages.

Niqqud Type: Masoretic (w/o te'amim); no niqqudot on haftarah titles

Spacing: 5-letter-width in-line space between parashiyyot; no additional space dividing haftarat of one book from another

Traditional Letters: N/A

Enlarged Letters: N/A

Suspended (Small) Letters: N/A

Punta Extraordinaire: N/A

Colophons: None

Sofer Marks: 19, always in right margin; 4 of which had been erased

Corrections: 155 total 32 in haftarot corresponding to Genesis, 24 for Exodus, 21 for for Leviticus, 10 for Numbers, 9 for Deuteronomy, 3 in the blessings, 15 in Special Sabbath readings, and 41 in Festival readings)

Overall Physical Condition

Text: All dark and legible, though on some panels, niqqudot are faded with some cracked and faded letters

Seams: Excellent with modern conservation

Parchment: Good