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Title

Targum ῾aravi la-Torah ve-ḥamesh megilot

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 14020 A
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_14020_A
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Judeo-Arabic

Origin

Summary

An Judeo-Arabic translation of the Torah and the Five Scrolls.

Notes

• Damp, with tidemarks across the leaves.
   
• Usage stains, mould spotting.
   
• Slight worming.
   
• Losses at edges, all infilled before rebinding.
   

Extent

360 folios; 360 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

Post-1600. Brown leather, blind tooled. Spine: 'Pentateuch. Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental Ms. 14020A.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 33 35; written lines: 33 35; Uniform layout. Larger initial words and titles. Leaf catchwords. Running titles. Marginal notes. Erasures, e.g. folio 75v. A strip of paper inserted between folio 75 and 76.

Script

Oriental semi-cursive script of the 16th century. Isakhar ben Mordekhai Susan: inscribed in the colophon, folio 127v (autograph).

Provenance

• ῾Ag'ami ben Yosef ῾Ag'ami
   
• Ya῾aḳov Boḳriyah
   
• Acquisition: Purchased by the British Library in 1981. Previously in the Sassoon Collection, no. 159.
   

Related resources

• Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — תרגום ערבי לתורה וחמש מגלות
• fol. 1r — Targum ῾aravi le-Torah ve-ḥamesh megilot