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Title

The book of Joshua, Judges and Samuel in Arabic characters, with punctuation, accentuation, an Arabic translation and a commentary of Yefet ben ʿEli.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2547
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2547
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Arabic

Origin

Summary

The book of Joshua, Judges and Samuel in Arabic characters, with punctuation, accentuation, an Arabic translation and a commentary of Yefet ben ʿEli.

Notes

• Lacunae after folios 1, 9, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 25, 26, 34, 35, 36, 42, 43, 44, 50, 51, 52, 61, 69, 137, 138, 139, 140, 176, 182, 183, 191, 206, 210, 211, 217, 223, 232, 238, 248. Blank leaves inserted to mark lacunae.
   
• A number of folios have been more or less mutilated.
   
• Folios 288r-290v have been added later, contain the Hebrew text in Arabic transcription of Judges 20:18-35, 21:5-14. The Hebrew vowel-points and accents are given in red ink. Space fillers in gold. Probably of 10th century. The handwriting is similar to the one in the appendix of George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), no. 278..
   

Extent

290 folios; 290 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Joshua, Judges & Samuel. Hebrew & Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2547.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 14 17; written lines: 14 17; The pointed and accentuated biblical text in Arabic characters is embodied. The diacritic points are generally added.

Script

A Naskhi hand of approximately 11th 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.

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