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

Title

The third part of the commentary of Japheth ben Ali ha-Levi on the book of Isaiah.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2502
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2502
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Judeo-Arabic

Origin

Summary

The third part of the commentary of Japheth ben Ali ha-Levi on the book of Isaiah.

Notes

• Several of the extant folios have been more or less damaged and/or mutilated.
   
• Lacuane after folios: 170, 227, 272.
   
• Water-damaged.
   
• Yosef Kohen ben Avraham ... ben Yosef Kohen: inscribed, folio 1r.
   
• Shemu᾿el ben Yehudah ben Shemu᾿el: inscribed, folio 1r.
   

Extent

272 folios; 272 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Yefet. Commentary on Isaiah. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2502.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 17; written lines: 17; Has masoretic notes in the margins. Hebrew biblical text is embodied. Catchwords on every verso.

Script

Semi-cursive script of approximately 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, folio [273v].
   

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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