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

Title

Judeo-Persian commentaries (fragments).

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2459
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2459
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Persian

Origin

Place

Iran

Summary

Fragments of Persian commentaries on verses from the Pentateuch and some other biblical books.

Notes

• All the pages considerably damaged and/or trimmed in the margins, stuck on modern paper leaves.
   

Extent

Folios 1-123; Folios 1-123

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Commentary on Numbers, etc. Persian. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2459.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 13 23; written lines: 13 23; Pages are of different size, considerably damaged and/or trimmed in the margins.

Script

Oriental (Persian) semi-cursive script, unpunctuated, of approximately 16th century and later.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 08 July 1882, folio [124v].
   

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 — פרושים
• fol. 1r — Perushim