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

Title

Shemot (שמות)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2368
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2368
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

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

Origin

Place

Yemen

Summary

The book of Exodus with a verse-by-verse translation into Aramaic, an Arabic translation of Sa'adia Gaon, and provided with the simple superlinear punctuation.

Notes

• Much stained or blurred in parts, occasionally also a little damaged. Imperfect at the beginning and also having lacunae between some leaves in the body of the mss.
   

Extent

86 folios; 86 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Layout

Columns: 2; ruled lines: 24; written lines: 24; The writing depends from the ruled line. Visible pricking. Ruling with hard-point is visible, lines ruled on the flesh side. Manuscript imperfect at the beginning and at the end.

Decoration

Decorated parashah signs.

Script

Yemenite square script with punctutation, probably of 15th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 23 July 1881.
   

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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