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

Title

Perush Shir ha-shirim (פרוש שיר השירים)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2514
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2514
• 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 (fragments).

Notes

• Partially damaged.
   
• On folio 119v there is a beginning of a question and answer on a grammatical matter in the Song of Songs.
   

Extent

119 folios; 119 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Yefet. Comm. on Canticles. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2514.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 14; written lines: 14; Visible ruling with a mastara. The Hebrew biblical text written in red ink.

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 [120v].
   

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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