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Title

Nur al-tsulm by Nathanael ben Isaiah (נור אלצלם)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2384
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2384
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Arabic

Origin

Place

Yemen

Summary

Nur al-tsulm, an Arabic-Hebrew midrashic commentary on the Pentateuch by Nathanael ben Isaiah.

Notes

• Imperfect at the beginning and at the end.
   
• Lacunae after folios 8, 37, 92, 93, 96, 99, 109, 110, 111, 112.
   
• Water-stained.
   
• Many pages damaged with loss of text.
   

Extent

130 folios; 130 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine title: 'Nur Uz-Zulm. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2384.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 22 26; written lines: 22 26; Some catchwords preserved. Occasional ornaments in colours, most frequent in the first part of the manuscript.

Script

Yemenite semi-cursive script of 15th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 23 July 1881: inscribed, folio [131v].
   

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. 1r — Midrash on Genesis
• fol. 22r — Midrash on the Pentateuch