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

Title

Perush Be-midbar (פרוש במדבר)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2475
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2475
• 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 ha-Levi on Numbers (22-36).

Notes

• Imperfect, with lacunae after folio 27, 47, 87, 93 and 123.
   
• Water-damaged.
   
• Folios 127r-128r supply the contents of the missing leaf after folio 123.
   

Extent

130 folios; 130 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Yefet. Com. on Numbers. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2475.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 21; written lines: 21; The Hebrew biblical text is embodied. Catchword on every verso.

Script

Semi-cursive script of 16th to 17th 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 [131v].
   

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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