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

Title

Perush ha-Tanakh (פרוש התנ"ך)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2387
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2387
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Origin

Place

Yemen

Summary

A Judeo-Arabic commentary on Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings by Avraham ben Shelomoh.

Notes

• Imperfect at the beginning.
   
• Extensive lacuna after folio 5.
   
• A few folios damaged at the beginning and at the end.
   
• Avraham ben Gershon, his name inscribed with a date of Elul 1842 (1531), folio 296v.
   

Extent

297 folios; 297 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Abraham ben Shlomoh. Commentary on the Former Prophets. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2387.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 27; written lines: 27; Uniform layout. Ruled with a mastara. Catchwords on every verso.

Script

Yemenite semi-cursive script, unpunctuated, of the 16th century. Me῾oded ben Yosef ben Sa῾adyah ben Yosef ben Shelomoh ben Natana᾿el, inscribed with his name in the colophon, folio 297r.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 23 July 1881, folio [298v].
   

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 — Joshua
• fol. 19v — Judges
• fol. 72v — Samuel
• fol. 247v — Kings