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Title

An Arabic commentary on the Pentateuch by Abu al-Faraj Furḳan (volume 2).

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2545
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2545
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Arabic; Hebrew

Origin

Summary

An Arabic commentary on the Pentateuch by Abu al-Faraj Furḳan (volume 2).

Notes

• Imperfect at the beginning and at the end.
   
• Last portion is considerably damaged.
   
• Some folios are worm-eaten.
   

Extent

210 folios; 210 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Pentateuch with Commentary. Hebrew and Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2545.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 15 17; written lines: 15 17; At the end of a book and of a pericope the number of verses is indicated by Arabic letters in red ink.

Script

Three Naskhi hands of approximately 12th 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 [211v].
   

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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