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Title

Ḳoṿets ba-parshanut ha-miḳra

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2499
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2499
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Judeo-Arabic

Origin

Summary

Two fragments of Judeo-Arabic commentaries, on the Pentateuch, Joshua, Judges, and on 1Samuel.

Notes

• All folios partially damaged, numerous attempts to stabilize the paper.
   
• Lacuna after folio 8.
   
• Iron gall ink corrosion.
   
• Water-damaged.
   
• The upper part of folios 22 and 23 is torn off.
   

Extent

Part I: Folios 1-21. An unfoliated modern sheet inserted between folios 8 and 9. Folio 15v is blank. Part II: Folios 22-89.;

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Com. on Samuel. etc. Mus. Brit. Oriental 2499.'

Layout

Part I: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 24-27; written lines: 24-27; The biblical text is embodied, followed by an Arabic translation. Part II: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 22-26; written lines: 22-26; Hebrew text is embodied, the translated words being partially given in red ink.

Script

Part I: Oriental square script of 14th century.Part II: Oriental semi-cursive script of 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, back flyleaf [iii]v.
   

Related resources

• Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Exodus
• fol. 7v — Leviticus
• fol. 9r — Numbers
• fol. 14r — Deuteronomy
• fol. 18v — Joshua
• fol. 20v — Judges
• fol. 22r — Commentary on 1Samuel 9:25-27, 11:5-14:23, 31-33:9.