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Title

Fragments of Arabic translation and commentaries on the book of Exodus.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2493
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2493
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Judeo-Arabic; Hebrew

Origin

Place

PersiaBabyloniaEgypt

Summary

Fragments of Arabic translation and commentaries on the book of Exodus.

Notes

• Some leaves damaged.
   
• Gaps after folios: 7, 15, 33, 72, 81.
   

Extent

87 folios; 87 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine title: 'Exodus with Comm. Hebrew & Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2493.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 15 32; written lines: 15 32; Uniform layout. Visible hard-point ruling.

Script

Oriental square and semi-cursive script, partially punctuated, of approximately 14th 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, folio [88v].
   

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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