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

Title

Perushim

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2463
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2463
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Judeo-Arabic

Origin

Summary

A Judeo-Arabic commentary of Japhet ben Ali on Genesis 1 and Genesis 18.

Notes

• All folios partially water-damaged and/or mutilated.
   
• Several lacunae.
   
• Water-damaged.
   
• Several folios are mutilated.
   

Extent

Part I: Folios 1-9. Part II: Folios 10-103.;

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Layout

Part I: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 19; written lines: 19; Biblical quotations with the Arabic translation is embodied. Part II: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 21; written lines: 21; Hebrew punctuation is given in red ink. Biblical quotations are provided separately in the upper part of the page, followed by translation in the lower part of the page.

Script

Part I: Oriental semi-cursive of 16th to 17th century.Part II: Oriental square and semi-cursive script of 16th to 17th century, partially punctuated.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 08 July 1882, folio [104v].
   

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 — Commentary on Genesis 1
• fol. 10r — Commentary on Genesis 18:25-50:7