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

Title

Karaite commentary on Ecclesiastes.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2555
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2555
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Arabic; Hebrew

Origin

Summary

An Arabic commentary on the book of Ecclesiastes.

Notes

• Imperfect at the beginning and at the end.
   
• Many folios damaged in the margins (modern restoration, stuck on paper).
   
• Slightly worm-eaten.
   
• Stained.
   

Extent

129 folios; 129 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine title: 'Ecclesiastes with Commentary. Hebrew & Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2555.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 11 14; written lines: 11 14; Uniform layout.

Script

Arabic Naskhi script of approximately 13th to 14th 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 [130v].
   

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. 1r — Commentary on Ecclesiastes