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

Title

Perush

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2464
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2464
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Judeo-Arabic

Origin

Summary

Two fragments of Judeo-Arabic commentary of Japheth ben Ali on Genesis.

Notes

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

Extent

Part I: Folios 1-4. Part II: Folios 5-101.;

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Yefet. Commentary on Genesis. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2464.'

Layout

Part I: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 24; written lines: 24; Uniform layout. Part II: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 25; written lines: 25; Visible ruling with hard-point. Two blank lines are interposed between the end of a weekly section and the beginning of a new one.

Script

Part I: Oriental square of 14th century.Part II: Oriental square script of 14th century.

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 [102v].
   

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
• fol. 5r — Commentary on Genesis 28-38