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

Title

Perush

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2517
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2517
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Judeo-Arabic

Origin

Summary

Salmon ben Yeroḥam's Arabic commentary on the book of Ecclesiastes and a Karaite commentary on the book of Esther.

Notes

• Many folios partially water-damaged.
   
• Water-damaged.
   
• Folio 147r is now attached to the manuscript, but originally belonged to a prayerbook; dated 1788.
   

Extent

Part I: Folios 1-107. Part II: Folios 108-146.;

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Salmon ben Yerucham. Comm. on Ecclesiastes, etc. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2517.'

Layout

Part I: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 24; written lines: 24; The unpointed biblical text is embodied, followed by an Arabic translation. Catchowords on every verso. Part II: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 21; written lines: 21; Hebrew text is embodied. Catchwords on every verso.

Script

Part I: Square and semi-cursive script of 16th century.Part II: Semi-cursive script of the beginning of 18th 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 the book of Ecclesiastes
• fol. 108r — Commentary on the book of Esther