Collection ID: 0047 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Nevi᾿im (נביאים)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 1473
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1473
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew;

Origin

Place

Yemen

Summary

Jeremiah and Ezekiel with Targum Onḳelos, provided with superlinear punctuation.

Notes

• Several pages stained. Folio 48 mutilated. Signs of water damage at the end.
   
• In the flyleaves at the end, three paper fragments have been added. The first contains a fragment of Judeo-Arabic letter (12th century?); the other two fragments contain Hebrew fragments with superlinear punctuation.
   

Extent

169 folios; 169 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Layout

Columns: 2; ruled lines: 24; written lines: 24; Ezekiel begins a new leaf. The beginnings of the Hafṭarot are indicated in the margin.

Script

Yemenite square script; Biblical text and Targum with simple Babylonian (superlinear) punctuation, in alternate verses.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 24 November 1877 (folio [172v]).
   

Related resources

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

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Jeremiah
• fol. 93r — Ezekiel