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

Title

Torah

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2491
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2491
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Judeo-Arabic

Origin

Place

Part I: Syria, Lebanon, or Iraq?

Summary

Fragments of Genesis, Exodus, Numbers and Deuteronomy, with the Arabic translation of the Karaite Yeshuʿah ben 'Ari or al-Shaikh Abu 'l-Faraj Furḳan ibn Asad; fragments of Genesis with the Arabic translation of the Karaite Japhet ben Ali.

Notes

• Badly damaged.
   

Extent

Part I: Folios 1-44 Part II: Folios 42-63.;

Support

Paper

Layout

1 column(s); Oriental paper, ruled with mastara. Part I: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 11; written lines: 11; The beginning of the weekly section is indicated in the margin by the word פרש' enclosed in a rough pen and ink design. The number of verses in each weekly section is registered at the end. Part II: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 13; written lines: 13; Hebrew text written in square script, with a simple punctuation and accentuation.

Script

Part I: Square and semi-cursive Oriental script.Part II: Oriental square and semi-cursive script.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 08 July 1882 ([64v]).
   

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 — Fragments of Genesis, Exodus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.
• fol. 42r — Genesis