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

Title

Perushim

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2497
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2497
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Judeo-Arabic; Hebrew

Origin

Summary

Fragments of Arabic commentaries on Exodus, Numbers and forbidden degrees of marriage.

Notes

• Slightly damaged.
   
• The upper part of the leaves is imperfectly preserved.
   
• Stuck on modern paper.
   

Extent

Part I: Folios 1-2 Part II: Folios 2-18. Part III: Folios 19-26;

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Com. on Numbers, etc. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2497.'

Layout

Part I: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 27; written lines: 27; The Hebrew biblical text is embodied. Part II: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 24; written lines: 24; The pointed Hebrew biblical text is embodied. Catchwords on every verso. Part III: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 25; written lines: 25;

Script

Three different Oriental semi-cursive scripts of approximately 13th to 14th century.Part I: Oriental semi-cursive script, of approximately the 13th century.Part II: Oriental semi-cursive script of approximately the 13th to 14th century.Part III: A semi-cursive script of approximately the 14th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 08 July 1882, folio [34v].
   

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 Exodus 24 (the shorter commentary)
• fol. 3r — Commentary on Numbers 35 (fragment)
• fol. 19r — On the forbidden degrees of marriage