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

Title

Volume 3 of an Arabic commentary on the Pentateuch by Abu al-Faraj Furḳan.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2546
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2546
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Arabic; Hebrew

Origin

Summary

Volume 3 of an Arabic commentary on the Pentateuch by Abu al-Faraj Furḳan.

Notes

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

Extent

145 folios; 145 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Pentateuch with Commentary. Hebrew and Arabic. Vol. III. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2546.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 14 18; written lines: 14 18; At the end of a book and of a pericope the number of verses is indicated by means of Arabic letters in red ink.

Script

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 [146v].
   

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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