The Karaite Pentateuch of Derbent (Manuscris, Doc)
T he Karaite Pentateuch of Derbent, Dagestan, 604 AD. On a comparison text project of Torah, a Pentateuch brought from Derbend or Derbent (Daghestan), written at 604 of the common era, deserves attention . The manuscript in question is in fact a Pentatuch scroll written on leather. The scroll seems to be written in the Caucasus or Iran regions approximately in 15-16th Centuries CE. The shelf mark of the manuscript is „1st Firk. Coll. A 1”. The Library does not prepare images of texts containing in scrolls. This manuscript is called the Pentateuch from Derbent, after the city where it was discovered. Derbent is a city in Daghestan. It contains the five books of Moses (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy) and was copied in 604. The manuscript was discovered in 1843 by a Jewish Karaite, Abraham Firkovich and was purchased by the former Tsarist Library in St. Peresburg, where it is now. Abraham (Avraham) ben Samuel Firkovich (1786–1874) ...