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

Title

Karaite commentaries

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2565
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2565
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Arabic; Hebrew

Origin

Summary

Two fragments of Arabic commentaries on the book of Psalms.

Notes

• Modern restoration, all the folios stuck on modern paper.
   
• A long gap after folio 64.
   
• Worm-eaten.
   
• Lacuna after folio 111.
   
• Margins slightly worm-eaten.
   

Extent

Part I: Folios 1-103 Part II: Folios 104-121;

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine title: 'Commentary on Psalms. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2565.'

Layout

Part I: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 15; written lines: 15; Uniform layout. Part II: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 18-21; written lines: 18-21; Uniform layout.

Script

Two different Naskhi hands of the 13th and 14th century.Part I: A Naskhi hand of approximately 13th century.Part II: A Naskhi hand of approximately 14th 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: inscribed, back flyleaf [i]v.
   

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 Psalms
• fol. 104r — Commentary on the Psalms