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Title

Perush ha-Torah (פרוש התורה)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2386
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2386
• 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.

Notes

• Imperfect at the beginning and at the end.
   
• Lacunae after folios: 8, 27, 40, 41, 125, 128.
   
• Folio 107 is mostly blank.
   
• Considerable water-damage at the top of the pages.
   

Extent

137 folios; 137 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Commentary on the Pentateuch. Arabic & Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2386.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 33 34; written lines: 33 34; Ruled with a mastara. A number of marginal notes. Folio 8r contains a diagram with the names of patriarchs.

Script

Yemenite semi-cursive script, unpunctuated, of the 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 [140v].
   

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. 27r — Exodus
• fol. 61v — Leviticus
• fol. 106r — Numbers
• fol. 129r — Deuteronomy