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

Title

Perush Iyov (פרוש איוב)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2511
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2511
• 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 Job, chapters 23-42.

Notes

• Lacunae after folios: 7, 8, 16, 22, 53, 71, 91, 99, 107, 115, 119, 133, 143.
   
• Many folios stained or water-damaged.
   
• Folio 150v contains a geneology of the previous owner and a rhyme.
   
• Avraham ben Shelomoh ben Shemu᾿el ben Eliyahu ben Aharon ben Yitsḥaḳ ben Eliyahu Firuz: inscribed in a note, folio 1r .
   
• An entry recording the name and genealogy of the same owner is also found on folio 150v.
   

Extent

150 folios; 150 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Yefet. Comm. on Job. Vol. II. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2511.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 14; written lines: 14; Uniform layout. The numbers of the chapters have been added by a later hand. Separate title page (folio 1r).

Script

Oriental 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 [151v].
   

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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