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

Title

Perush

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2465
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2465
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Judeo-Arabic

Origin

Summary

Three fragments of Judeo-Arabic commentary of Yefet ben 'Eli on Genesis.

Notes

• All folios partially water-damaged.
   
• Water-damaged.
   
• Water-damaged.
   

Extent

Part I: Folios 1-14. Part II: Folios 15-73. Part III: Folios 74-83.;

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Layout

Part I: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 14; written lines: 14; The unpointed biblical text is embodied, followed by an Arabic translation. Catchwords on every verso. Part II: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 15; written lines: 15; Hebrew text is embodied. Ruled with mastara. Catchwords on every verso. Part III: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 15; written lines: 15; Ruled with mastara. The pointed and accentuated Hebrew text is embodied, accompanied with an Arabic translation. Catchwords on every verso.

Script

Part I: Square and semi-cursive script of 15th century.Part II: Square and semi-cursive script of 15th century.Part III: Square and semi-cursive script of 15th 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 [83v].
   

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 1-3
• fol. 15r — Commentary on Genesis 24:20-26-28
• fol. 74r — Commentary on Genesis 37 (fragments)