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Title

Commentary on the Exodus by Shemu᾿el ben Mosheh al-Magrebi.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2488
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2488
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Judeo-Arabic; Hebrew

Origin

Summary

The commentary on the book of Exodus (fragments).

Notes

• Several pages partially stained.
   
• Water-damaged.
   
• Lacunae after folios 2, 3, 4.
   

Extent

41 folios; 41 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine title: 'Samuel Ha-Rofe. Comm. On Exodus. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2488.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 14; written lines: 14; Uniform layout. Catchwords on every verso. Hebrew biblical text provided with punctuation.

Script

Oriental semi-cursive script of the 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 [42v].
   

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 — פירוש שמות
• fol. 1r — Perush shemot