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

Title

Perushim

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2494
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2494
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Judeo-Arabic

Origin

Summary

Fragments of Arabic commentaries on Leviticus.

Notes

• Stained.
   
• A number of pages worm-eaten and/or damaged.
   

Extent

Part I: Folios 1-30 Part II: Folios 31-80;

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Title on the spine: 'Comm. on Leviticus, Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2494.'

Layout

Part I: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 26; written lines: 26; Of the Hebrew text only the opening words of the verses are given. Visible pricking and ruling with a hard-point. Part II: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 22; written lines: 22; Of the Hebrew text only the opening words of each verse are given.

Script

Two different Oriental square and semi-cursive scripts of approximately 13th to 14th century.Part I: Oriental square script of approximately 14th century.Part II: Oriental semi-cursive script of approximately 13th and 14th 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 .
   

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 — Commentary on Leviticus
• fol. 31r — Commentary on Leviticus