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

Title

Perushim

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2505
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2505
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Judeo-Arabic

Origin

Summary

Five fragments of Japhet ben Ali's Judeo-Arabic commentaries on various biblical books.

Notes

• Imperfect.
   
• Several folios mutilated.
   
• Several leaves damaged.
   
• Most folios severely damaged.
   
• Stained.
   
• Fading ink.
   
• Stained.
   
• Fading ink.
   

Extent

Part I: Folios 1-30 Part II: Folios 31-80. Part III: Folios 81-87. Part IV: Folios 88-97. Part V: Folios 98 and 99.;

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Yefet. Com. on Prophets. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2505.'

Layout

Part I: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 16; written lines: 16; The pointed biblical text is embodied, followed by an Arabic translation. Catchwords on every verso. Part II: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 16; written lines: 16; The Hebrew biblical text is embodied. Part III: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 16; written lines: 16; Uniform layout. Part IV: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 16; written lines: 16; The pointed Hebrew text is embodied. Catchwords on every verso. Part V: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 16; written lines: 16; The pointed Hebrew text is embodied. Catchwords on every verso.

Script

Part I: Semi-cursive script of the 16th century.Part II: Square and semi-cursive scripts of the 15th century.Part III: Square and semi-cursive scripts of the 15th century.Part IV: Square and semi-cursive scripts of approximately the 16th century.Part V: Square and semi-cursive scripts of appoximately the 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 [100v].
   

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 the book of Isaiah
• fol. 31r — Commentary on Ezekiel 1:25-6:13.
• fol. 81r — Commentary on Hosea
• fol. 88r — Commentary on Amos 6:7-7:13
• fol. 98r — Commentary on Amos