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

Title

Perushim

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2549
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2549
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Arabic; Hebrew

Origin

Summary

Two fragments of Japhet ben Ali Arabic commentaries, on Jeremiah and Ezekiel, respectively.

Notes

• Many of the extant leaves are more or less mutilated.
   
• Lacunae after folios: 8, 27, 67, 78, 84, 85, 87, 88, 89, 90, 96, 97, 105, 111, 132, 140.
   
• Stained.
   
• Several folios damaged, with signs of book-worming.
   
• Lacunae after folios: 148, 155, 156, 225, 233, 234, 238, 269, 288, 294, 296, 298, 301.
   
• Many folios damaged and/or stained.
   

Extent

Part I: Folios 1-140. Part II: Folios 141-308.;

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Jeremiah and Ezekiel. Yefet's Commentary. Hebrew & Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2549.'

Layout

Part I: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 12-20; written lines: 12-20; The pointed biblical text in Arabic characters is embodied, followed by an Arabic translation. The biblical text is written in large Arabic characters (using a phonetic transcription), provided with the Hebrew vowel-points and accents in red ink. Part II: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 12-20; written lines: 12-20; The pointed biblical text in Arabic characters is embodied, followed by an Arabic translation. The biblical text is written in large Arabic characters (using a phonetic transcription), provided with the Hebrew vowel-points and accents in red ink.

Script

Part I: An Arabic hand of approximately 11th century.Part II: An Arabic hand of approximately 11th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 08 July 1882, folio [309v].
   

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. 141r — Commentary on Ezekiel