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

Title

The book of Isaiah: the Hebrew text written in Arabic characters, with an Arabic translation and a commentary of Japhet ben Ali.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2548
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2548
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Arabic

Origin

Summary

The book of Isaiah: the Hebrew text written in Arabic characters, with an Arabic translation and a commentary of Japhet ben Ali.

Notes

• Several of the extant folios have been more or less damaged.
   
• Folios 186r-187v: two appended leaves, consisting of the Hebrew text in Arabic transcription of Isaiah 26:15-27:13. The Hebrew vowel-point and accents are added in red ink. Cf. 278, folios 288r-290v.
   

Extent

187 folios; 187 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Isaiah. Yefet's Comm. Hebrew & Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2548.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 11 13; written lines: 11 13; Uniform layout.

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, folio [188v] (fse001v).
   

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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