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

Title

Perush ha-mitsṿot.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2573
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2573
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Arabic; Hebrew

Origin

Summary

An Arabic treatise on the interpretation of the commandments.

Notes

• Folio 2 and 58-59 is mutilated.
   
• Imperfect at the beginning and at the end.
   
• Slightly wotm-eaten.
   
• Stained.
   
• Folios 60r-61v: two fragments of the same work by another hand. The contents of folio 60 coincide with those on folio 42v to 44r.
   
• Partially illegible owners' entries in Arabic cursive, on a strip of paper, folio 1r, 1v - written by the same hand as folios 2-59.
   

Extent

61 folios; 61 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine title: 'Comments on Mitsvoth. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2573.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 12 15; written lines: 12 15; Hebrew quotations given in Hebrew characters.

Script

Arabic hand of probably 11th 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, inscribed folio [63v].
   

Related resources

• Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — פרדס רמוני החכמה וערוגת בושם המזמה
• fol. 1r — Perush ha-mitsṿot