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

Title

Perush Iyov

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2512
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2512
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Judeo-Arabic

Origin

Summary

Fragments of Japhet ben Ali's Arabic commentary on the book of Job.

Notes

• The latter portions are in a very bad condition and in many stances hardly legible.
   
• Gaps after folios 15, 17, 25, 35.
   
• There is a gap after folio 45.
   
• Mutilated in the margin.
   
• A gap after folios 53 and 58.
   

Extent

Part I: Folios 1-7 Part II: Folios 8-9 Part III: Folios 10-13 Part IV: Folios 14 to 43 Part V: Folios 44-47 Part VI: Folio 48-49 Part VII: Folio 50 Part VIII: Folio 51 Part IX: Folio 52 Part X: Folios 53-58;

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Layout

Part I: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 19; written lines: 19; Uniform layout. Part II: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 25; written lines: 25; Uniform layout. Part III: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 24; written lines: 24; Uniform layout. Part IV: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 25; written lines: 25; Uniform layout. Part V: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 23-24; written lines: 23-24; Uniform layout. Part VI: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 25; written lines: 25; Uniform layout. Part VII: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 21; written lines: 21; Uniform layout. Part VIII: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 25; written lines: 25; Uniform layout. Part IX: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 27-28; written lines: 27-28; Uniform layout. Part X: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 19; written lines: 19; Uniform layout.

Script

Part I: Square and semi-cursive script of 16th century.Part II: Square script of the 14th century.Part III: Square script of the 14th century.Part IV: Square script of the 14th century.Part V: Square script of the 14th century.Part VI: Square script of the 14th century.Part VII: Semi-cursive script of the 16th century.Part VIII: Square character of the 14th century.Part IX: Square script of the 14th century.Part X: Square and semi-cursive script of the 17th 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, back flyleaf [i]v.
   

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 Job
• fol. 8r — Commentary on Job
• fol. 10r — Commentary on Job
• fol. 14r — Commentary on Job
• fol. 44r — Commentary on Job
• fol. 48r — Commentary on Job
• fol. 50r — Commentary on Job
• fol. 51r — Commentary on Job
• fol. 52r — Commentary on Job
• fol. 53r — Commentary on Job