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

Title

Perushim (פרושים)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2554
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2554
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Arabic

Origin

Place

Ramlah

Summary

The commentary of Japheth ben Ali ha-Levi on the Song of Songs and Ruth (fragments).

Notes

• Partially water-damaged.
   
• Sings of worm-eating.
   
• Abu l-Faraj Ya'ḳub: inscribed with a date of 1004-1005, Ramlah, folio 95v.
   
• Yesha῾yah ben Tsaliḥ ben ῾Azaryahu: inscribed, folio 25r.
   

Extent

95 folios; 95 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Ruth & Canticles with Yefet's Commentary. Hebrew & Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2554.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 11 15; written lines: 11 15; Uniform layout. The diacritic points are generally added.

Script

A Naskhi hand of the early 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 [96v].
   

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. 1v — Ruth
• fol. 25v — Song of Songs