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

Title

Karaite commentary on the Books of Kings.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2500
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2500
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Judeo-Arabic; Hebrew

Origin

Summary

An Arabic commentary on the books of Kings.

Notes

• Gaps after folios: 6, 118, 152, 210 and 294.
   
• Some margins slightly water-damaged.
   
• Folios 283-294 partly damaged and/or stained.
   
• Elḥakhim ben Avraham: inscribed in a note, folio 1r.
   
• Eli᾿av ben Avraham, Eli῾ezer Leṿi ben Barukh Leṿi Ḳayam, Yeshu῾ah Leṿi ben Shelomoh ha-Zaḳen: inscribed in a note, folio 320v.
   
• The record of the last name is dated 1815.
   

Extent

320 folios; 320 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine title: 'Commentary on Kings. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2500.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 21; written lines: 21; Catchwords on every verso. The Hebrew text is punctuated.

Script

Semi-cursive script of the 19th century. Yosef Berakhah: inscribed in the colophon, folio 320v.

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 [321v].
   

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 — Commentary on the books of Kings