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Title

Muḳadimat

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2484
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2484
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Judeo-Arabic

Origin

Summary

The Muḳadimat, or introductions (in Arabic and Hebrew), to the weekly parashiyot of the Pentateuch, by Shemu᾿el ha-Rofe al-Maghribi in three uniform volumes (volume 3).

Notes

• Folios missing after folio 1, 3, 5, 6, 104, 272.
   
• Slightly stained.
   
• [...] ben Yeshu῾ah Firūz: inscribed, folio 2r of volume 1.
   
• Shelomoh Kohen ben Yosef Kohen ben Mordekhai Kohen: inscribed, folio 1v of volume 1.
   

Extent

289 folios; 289 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine title: 'Samuel ha-Rofe. Mukaddimat. Vol. III. Arabic & Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2484'.

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 17; written lines: 17; Uniform layout. Visible ruling with a mastara. Initial words of each section written in larger characters, preceded with a title page (see e.g. folio 1r, 6r, etc). Catchwords on every verso. The biblical verses are given with punctuation.

Script

Square and semi-cursive Oriental script of the 17th century. Avraham ben Mordekhai ha-Kohen: inscribed in volume 2, folio 220v, and volume 3, folio 126v. Avraham ha-Kohen wrote the present manuscript for his son, Yosef. The name of the latter is inscribed under the title of each Muḳadimah.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 08 July 1882: inscribed, folio [290v].
   

Related resources

• Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Be-haʿalotekha
• fol. 6r — Shelaḥ lekha
• fol. 7r — Ḳoraḥ
• fol. 25r — Ḥuḳat
• fol. 44r — Balaḳ
• fol. 66r — Pinḥas
• fol. 82r — Maṭot
• fol. 105r — Masʿe
• fol. 127r — Devarim
• fol. 143r — Ṿa-etḥanan
• fol. 164r — ʾEḳev
• fol. 181r — Re᾿eh
• fol. 197r — Shofeṭim
• fol. 214r — Ki tetse
• fol. 230r — Ki tavo
• fol. 246r — Nitsavim
• fol. 262r — Haʾazinu
• fol. 284r — Ṿe-zot ha-berakhah