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Title

Muḳadimat

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2485
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2485
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Arabic

Origin

Summary

Volume 1 of the Muḳadimat, or introductions (in Arabic and Hebrew), to the weekly parashiyot of the Pentateuch, by Shemu᾿el ha-Rofe al-Maghribi.

Notes

• Folio missing after folio 125.
   
• Slightly stained.
   
• Folio 205-206 belonged originally to a different manuscript.
   
• Mosheh Rofe ben Mosheh ha-Melamed: inscribed under the titles of most of the Muḳadimat, e.g. folio 56r.
   
• Yosef ha-Rofe ben Mosheh ha-Rofe: inscribed, folio 125v.
   
• Birth entry of Avraham, dated 5603 (1842): folio 111v .
   

Extent

206 folios; 206 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine title: 'Samuel ha-Rofe. Mukaddimat. Vol. I. Arabic & Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2485.'

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, 28r, etc). Catchwords on every verso. The biblical verses are given with punctuation.

Script

Square and semi-cursive Oriental scripts of the 17th to 18th century.

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 [207v].
   

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 — Bereshit
• fol. 28r — Noaḥ
• fol. 43r — Lekh lekha
• fol. 56r — Ṿa-yera
• fol. 71r — Ḥaye Sarah
• fol. 84r — Toledot
• fol. 98r — Ṿa-yetse
• fol. 112r — Ṿa-yishlaḥ
• fol. 126r — Ṿa-yeshev
• fol. 138r — Mi-ḳets
• fol. 155r — Ṿa-yigash
• fol. 170r — Ṿa-yeḥi
• fol. 187r — Shemot
• fol. 205r — Ki taso
• fol. 206r — Ṿa-yaḳhel