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Title

A Judeo-Arabic commentary on Genesis 1:1-18:15..

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2462
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2462
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Judeo-Arabic

Origin

Summary

A Judeo-Arabic commentary on Genesis 1:1-18:15..

Notes

• Lacunae after folios: 1, 2, 11, 18, 29, 165, 224.
   
• Visible marks of water-damage.
   
• An owner's note, folio 1r.
   

Extent

224 folios; 224 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Yefet. Commentary on Genesis. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2462.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 21; written lines: 21; Biblical verses are given in square characters. Catchwords on every verso.

Script

Oriental square and semi-cursive script, unpunctuated, of the 16-17th century. Shemu᾿el: inscribed at the beginning of lines on folio 200v, 221v, 222v.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 08 July 1882, folio [225v].
   

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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