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Title

Perush Ba-midbar

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2476
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2476
• 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 Numbers.

Notes

• All folios partially water-damaged.
   
• Lacunae after folios 20, 21, 22 and 50.
   
• Water-damaged.
   

Extent

Part I: Folios 1-50. Part II: Folios 51-73.;

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine title: 'Yefet. Com. on Numbers. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2476.'

Layout

Part I: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 22; written lines: 22; The unpointed biblical text is embodied, followed by an Arabic translation. Part II: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 21; written lines: 21; Hebrew text is embodied, the commented words being given in red ink.

Script

Part I: Square and semi-cursive script of the 16th century.Part II: Semi-cursive script of the 17th century.

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 .
   

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 Numbers 26-29
• fol. 51r — Commentary on Numbers 31-36