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

Title

Perush Shemot (פרוש שמות)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2470
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2470
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Judeo-Arabic

Origin

Summary

A fragment of Judeo-Arabic commentary of Japheth ben Ali on Exodus 17:5-20:14.

Notes

• The last quire is imperfect, the last three leaves having been lost.
   
• Several folios have been damaged and later restored on modern paper.
   

Extent

57 folios; 57 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Yefet Com. on Exodus. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2470.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 24; written lines: 24; Visible pricking and ruling with a hard-point.

Script

Square to semi-cursive script of approximately 15-16th 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 [58v].
   

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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