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

Title

Perushim

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2552
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2552
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Arabic

Origin

Summary

Fragments of Japheth ben Ali's Arabic commentary on Job, and Arabic commentaries on Ecclesiastes and Lamentations.

Notes

• All folios partially damaged.
   
• The latter portions are in a very bad condition and in many stances hardly legible.
   

Extent

Part I: Folios 1-89. Part II: Folios 90-141.;

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Job. With Yefet's Comm. Etc. Hebrew & Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2552.'

Layout

Part I: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 15; written lines: 15; The Hebrew punctuation and accentuation is given in red ink. Part II: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 10-12; written lines: 10-12; Uniform layout.

Script

Two different Naskhi hands of approximately 11 and 10th century, respectively.Part I: A Naskhi hand of the 11th century.Part II: A Naskhi hand of the 10th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: A previous owner's note, partly illegible, on folio 90r.
   
• 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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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Commentary on Job
• fol. 90r — Ecclesiastes
• fol. 121r — Lamentations