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

Title

Karaite commentaries

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2558
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2558
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Arabic; Hebrew

Origin

Summary

Two fragments of Arabic commentaries on the books of Pentateuch.

Notes

• Modern restoration; many folios stuck on paper.
   
• Folios missing at the beginning and at the end, and after folios 18, 68, 74, 96, 100, 101, 121, 129, 138, 147, 148, 149, 159, 169, 170, 178, 184, 194, 195, 205.
   
• Many extant leaves are more or less damaged.
   
• Many extant leaves are more or less damaged.
   

Extent

212 folios (+ 2 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end). Part I: Folios 1-205 Part II: Folios 206-212;

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine title: 'Commentary on Exodus and Deuteronomy. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2558.'

Layout

Part I: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 15; written lines: 15; Part II: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 15; written lines: 15; The Hebrew text is provided with punctuation.

Script

Two different Naskhi hands of 11th to 13th century, and Oriental square script of 12th to 13th century.Part I: A Naskhi hand of approximately 11th century.Part II: An Arabic Naskhi script (large, bold) and Hebrew (Oriental) square of approximately 12th to 13th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 08 July 1882, folio [213v].
   

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 the books of Exodus and Deuteronomy.
• fol. 206r — Deuteronomy