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Title

Nevi᾿im (נביאים)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 1474
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1474
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew;

Origin

Place

Yemen

Summary

The Latter Prophets with Targum Onḳelos and the Arabic translation of Isaiah by Sa'adyah Ga'on, provided with masorah magna and parva.

Notes

• Several pages stained.
   
• Previous owners' notes, in Judeo-Arabic: inscribed, folio 1r and 1v.
   
• Yeḥi᾿el Yosef Benyamin: inscribed, folio 1r.
   

Extent

274 folios; 274 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 26; written lines: 26; All the books except Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Nahum, Zephaniah and Malachi begin a new page. The beginnings of the chapters according to the Christian division are marked in the margin with the letter 'samekh' and the respective number. The beginning and the end of the Hafṭarot are indicated in the margin. Masorah magna occupies one line in the upper and from one to two lines in the lower margin of each page. The number of verses is stated at the end of each book, except Zechariah and Malachi.

Script

Yemenite square script; Biblical text with Tiberian punctuation, 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 [277v]).
   

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. 2r — Jeremiah
• fol. 70v — Ezekiel
• fol. 132r — Isaiah
• fol. 222r — Hosea
• fol. 231r — Joel
• fol. 234v — Amos
• fol. 241v — Obadiah
• fol. 242v — Jonah
• fol. 245r — Micah
• fol. 250r — Nahum
• fol. 252v — Habakuk
• fol. 255r — Zephaniah
• fol. 258r — Haggai
• fol. 260r — Zechariah
• fol. 270v — Malachi