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

Title

Perush Shemot (פרוש שמות)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2398
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2398
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

; Hebrew

Origin

Summary

An Arabic commentary on the weekly sections Be-shalaḥ, Yitro and Mishpaṭim (Exodus 13:17-24:18).

Notes

• Imperfect at the beginning and at the end. Lacunae after folios 3 and 6, and quires 17-20 are entirely lost.
   
• Stained.
   
• Folios 270r-270v - contains doodles, magical squares, etc.
   
• Yosef ben Mosheh: inscribed, folio 1v.
   
• Mosheh Firūz Ḳara᾿i: inscribed, folio 1r.
   

Extent

270 folios; 270 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Caraite Commentary on Exodus. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2398.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 19; written lines: 19; The unpointed Hebrew text is embodied. Has many marginal notes.

Script

Square and semi-cursive script of 13 to 14th 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 [271v].
   

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 — פרוש שמות
• fol. 1r — Perush Shemot