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

Title

Karaite commentary.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2567
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2567
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Arabic; Hebrew

Origin

Summary

An Arabic commentary on the book of Proverbs.

Notes

• Imperfect at the beginning and at the end. Leaves missing after folios 8 and 87.
   
• Folios 1, 2, 15, 53, 54, 62, 65, 71, 76, 79, 80, 88, 90, 91 are damaged.
   
• Greater part of folio 87 is lost.
   
• Many folios worm-eaten.
   

Extent

95 folios; 95 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine title: 'Comm. on Proverbs. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Or. 2567.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 15; written lines: 15; Uniform layout.

Script

Hebrew square and Arabic Naskhi script 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, folio [96v].
   

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 Proverbs