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Title

Perush ha-Torah (פרוש התורה)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2385
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2385
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Arabic

Origin

Place

Yemen

Summary

A commentary on the Pentateuch in Arabic and Hebrew.

Extent

221 folios; 221 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Commentary on the Pentateuch. Hebrew & Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2385.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 24 35; written lines: 24 35; Ruled with a mastara. Has a number of marginal notes.

Script

Yemenite semi-cursive script, unpunctuated, of approximately 16th 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, folio [222v].
   

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 — Genesis
• fol. 32v — Exodus
• fol. 71r — Leviticus
• fol. 124r — Numbers
• fol. 154r — Deuteronomy
• fol. 209r — Portions of additional commentaries
• fol. 211r — Fragments of the Hafṭarot of Genesis with Targum