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

Title

Perush Mishle (פרוש משלי)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2507
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2507
• 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 Proverbs.

Notes

• Lacunae after folios: 5, 13, 27, 58, 78, 93, 101, 111, 149, 157, 172, 173.
   
• Imperfect at the end.
   
• Many folios stained or water-damaged.
   

Extent

175 folios; 175 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Yefet. Commentary on Proverbs. Arabic. Vol. II. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2507.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 14; written lines: 14; The numbers of the chapters have been added by a later hand. Catchword on every verso.

Script

Square and semi-cursive script of the 15th 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 [176v].
   

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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