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Title

Perushim (פרושים)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2559
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2559
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Arabic; Hebrew

Origin

Summary

Fragments of Arabic commentaries on Leviticus and Psalms.

Notes

• Number of pages damaged and stained.
   
• Slightly worm-eaten.
   
• Gaps after folio 1, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 25, 28, 29, 31 and 53.
   
• Imperfect at the beginning and at the end.
   

Extent

61 folios; 61 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Comm. on Leviticus and Psalms. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Or. 2559.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 13; written lines: 13; Uniform layout. Some pages left blank.

Script

A Naskhi hand of approximately 13th 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 [62v].
   

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 Leviticus 21, 22, 23, 24
• fol. 54r — Commentary on Psalms (fragment)