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

Title

Karaite commentaries

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2566
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2566
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Arabic; Hebrew

Origin

Summary

Two fragments of Arabic commentaries on the books of Psalms.

Notes

• Modern restoration, all the folios stuck on modern paper.
   
• Folios missing at the beginning and at the end, and after folios 8 and 18.
   
• Many extant leaves are more or less damaged.
   
• Last three folios partly damaged.
   

Extent

Part I: Folios 1-26 Part II: Folios 27-32;

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine title: 'Comm. on Psalms. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Or. 2566.'

Layout

Part I: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 17; written lines: 17; Part II: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 14-16; written lines: 14-16;

Script

Two different Naskhi hands, with Hebrew square and semi-cursive scripts, of 12th to 14th century.Part I: A cursive Naskhi and Hebrew semi-cursive script of approximately 12th to 13th century.Part II: An Arabic Naskhi and Hebrew (Oriental) square of approximately 13th to 14th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 08 July 1882, folio [33v].
   

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 — Comments on the Psalms
• fol. 27r — Comments on the Psalms