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

Title

Nevi'im (נביאים)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2210
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2210
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

YemenSan'a

Summary

Former Prophets, accentuated and punctuated, with Targum, masorah magna and parva.

Notes

• Avraham ben Yosef: inscribed with his name in the colophon, folio 193v.
   
• A birth record of the son of Ibrahim ibn Yusuf, inscribed on folio 193v, with a date of Adar 1781 (1470).
   
• A purchase note in Judeo-Arabic, folio 194v.
   

Extent

194 folios; 194 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Layout

Columns: 2; ruled lines: 26; written lines: 26; Uniform layout. Masorah magna in generally one line in the lower margin and occasionaly one line in the upper margin of the page. The beginning and the end of the Haftarot marked in the margin.

Script

Yemenite square script, punctuated. Benayah [ben Sa'adyah ben Zekharyah ben Margaz], for manuscripts of the same scribe see Or 2211, 2348, 2370, 2375.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 13 December 1879, inscribed [195v].
   

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. 1r — Joshua
• fol. 28r — Judges
• fol. 55v — Samuel
• fol. 121v — Kings