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Title

The commentary of Japheth ben Ali ha-Levi on the book of Jeremiah.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2503
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2503
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Judeo-Arabic

Origin

Summary

The commentary of Japheth ben Ali ha-Levi on the book of Jeremiah.

Notes

• Several of the extant folios have been water-damaged.
   
• Lacunae after folios: 1, 2, 8, 9, 18, 23, 35, 38, 46, 57, 69, 75, 83, 103, 111, 117, 149, 151, 153, 204, 212.
   
• Eliyahu ben Shelomoh ben Shemu᾿el ben Eliyahu ben Aharon ben Yitsḥaḳ ben Eliyahu Firuz: inscribed, folio 3r.
   

Extent

252 folios; 252 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house.

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 16; written lines: 16; Uniform layout. Masoretic and other notes in the margins. Visible ruling with a mastara.

Script

Oriental square and semi-cursive script of approximately 15th 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 [253v].
   

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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