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

Title

Perushim

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2557
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2557
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Judeo-Arabic

Origin

Summary

A Judeo-Arabic commentary on Genesis of Abu Yusuf Yaʻaḳov Alḳirḳisani, a Karaite commentary on Leviticus, and Japhet's commentary on the book of Daniel.

Notes

• All folios partially damaged and/or mutilated.
   

Extent

Part I: Folios 1-12. Part II: Folios 13-24. Part III: Folios 25-43.;

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Layout

Part I: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 24-28; written lines: 24-28; Hebrew punctuation is given in red ink. Biblical quotations are written in Hebrew characters. Part II: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 21; written lines: 21; Hebrew punctuation is given in red ink. Biblical quotations are written in Hebrew characters. Part III: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 17; written lines: 17; All the folios are partially damaged and/or mutilated, of various size. Hebrew text is given in Arabic characters. Hebrew punctuation supplied in red ink.

Script

Part I: Arabic hand of the 13th century.Part II: Arabic hand of the 13th 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 [44v].
   

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 — Introduction to commentary on Genesis
• fol. 13r — Karaite commentary on Leviticus
• fol. 25r — Fragments of the commentary on Daniel