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

Title

Perushim (פרושים)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2513
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2513
• 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 Song of Songs and Ruth (fragments).

Notes

• Partially water-damaged.
   
• Several pages with damaged margins.
   

Extent

161 folios; 161 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Yefet. Comm. on Ruth & Canticles. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2513.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 17; written lines: 17; Separate title-page, supplied by a much later hand. The colophon is supplied twice, the second one being added in a more recent hand. The pointed and accentuated Hebrew text with an Arabic translation is embodied.

Script

Square and semi-cursive script of the 14th century. Shemu᾿el ben Yosef: inscribed, folio 161v.

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 [162v].
   

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. 1v — Ruth
• fol. 45v — Song of Songs