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

Title

Perush Mishle (פרוש משלי)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2402
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

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• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2402
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Judeo-Arabic

Origin

Place

EgyptCairo

Summary

The commentary of Japheth ben Ali ha-Levi on the book of Proverbs.

Notes

• There is a rhymed epigram concerning the doctirne of Islam on folio .
   
• A list of Karaite doctors inscribed in a note, folio , see .
   

Extent

190 folios; 190 folios

Foliation

Folios 2-186 are numbered with Hebrew letters and Arabic numerals.

Support

Paper

Binding

Post-1600, red leather bridge and marbled-paper covers. Spine: 'Yefet. Comm. on Proverbs. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2402.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 21; written lines: 21; One column of written text, of 21 lines each, a page. Has a separate title-page. Has a running title throughout the manuscript. Catchwords on every folio.

Script

Square and semi-cursive script of the 19th century. Mosheh ben Avraham ha-Leṿi, inscribed in the colophon, folio .

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 [191v].
   

Related resources

• Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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