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Title

Bereshit u-shemot (בראשית ושמות)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2367
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2367
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Jewish Babylonian Aramaic (ca. 200-1200 CE); Judeo-Arabic

Origin

Summary

Genesis and Exodus with Targum Onḳelos and Sa'adyah Ga'on's Arabic translation, with Hebrew grammar Maḥberet al-tigan (מחברת אלתיגאן) at the beginning of the manuscript.

Notes

• Several leaves mutilated, some of them have been mended.
   
• Folios 126, 164-165, 167-168, 170 and 177 are later additions on Oriental paper; and several patches of the same paper, same later hand on other folios. Folios 1-3 are a much later addition on modern notebook paper.
   

Extent

234 folios; 234 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Genesis & Exodus with Targum and Arab. Vers. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Harley 5510.'

Layout

Columns: 2 3; ruled lines: 26; written lines: 26; Visible ruling with mastara. Main Hebrew text of Genesis and Exodus written in 12-13 lines, accompanied with translation arranged in 26 lines. The first section of the mansucript, being a Hebrew grammar (ספר אלתיגאן), is arranged in two columns, with a catchwork at the end of each column (except modern addition on folios 1-3, which is written in one column). Some marginal masoretic notes. Subdivision of the weekly sections marked with Hebrew letters in the margins, but two other types of subdivision also indicated. A masoretic statement indicating the number of verses at the end of each pericope. A rubric giving the number of verses together with the numbers of the open and closed sections given at the end of each book.

Decoration

Pen-decorated designs marking the beginnings of weekly sections.

Script

Square and semi-cursive Yemenite handwriting executed by several hands; some additions are much later than the whole manuscript (folios 1-3).

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 23 July 1884; inscribed with his name on back flyleaf verso.
   

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. 1v — Maḥberet al-tigan מחברת אלתיגאן
• fol. 23v — Genesis
• fol. 138r — Exodus