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Title

Perush Tehilim (פרוש תהלים)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2521
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2521
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Judeo-Arabic

Origin

Place

SyriaDamascus

Summary

The Psalms of the weekly portions of Numbers and Deuteronomy according to the Karaite ritual, with Japheth ben Ali's translation and commentary.

Notes

• Lacunae after folios: 37, 48, 49, 54, 61.
   
• Avraham Firuz: inscribed in a note, folio 166v.
   

Extent

166 folios; 166 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Commentary on Psalms. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2521.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 16; written lines: 16; The Hebrew text is provided with no punctuation. Catchword on every verso.

Script

Large semi-cursive script of 16th century. Shelomoh ben ... Daṿid Ḥazan: inscribed in the colophon, folio 88r.

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 [167v].
   

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 — Psalm 80
• fol. 10v — Psalm 67
• fol. 14v — Psalm 27
• fol. 24v — Psalm 95
• fol. 29v — Psalm 55
• fol. 41v — Psalm 51
• fol. 51v — Psalm 83
• fol. 61r — Psalm 119
• fol. 63v — Psalm 75
• fol. 75r — Psalm 77
• fol. 89v — Psalm 19
• fol. 101v — Psalm 17
• fol. 110r — Psalm 119
• fol. 113v — Psalm 24
• fol. 121v — Psalm 58
• fol. 130v — Psalm 144
• fol. 139v — Psalm 67
• fol. 143r — Psalm 40
• fol. 152v — Psalm 27
• fol. 162v — Psalm 47