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

Title

Commentaries

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2581a
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2581a
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Arabic; Hebrew

Origin

Summary

Several fragments of Arabic translations of the Pentateuch and Hagiographa, with commentaries.

Notes

• All folios more or less damaged. Restored, stuck on modern paper.
   
• Much damaged.
   
• Stained.
   
• Partly damaged.
   
• Stained.
   
• Worm-eaten.
   
• Damaged.
   
• Stained.
   
• Partly damaged (margins).
   
• Slightly worm-eaten.
   
• Stained.
   
• Ink slightly fading.
   
• Partly damaged.
   
• Slightly worm-eaten.
   
• Damaged.
   
• Slightly worm-eaten.
   

Extent

Part I: Folios 1-4 Part II: Folios 5-16 Part III: Folios 17-18 Part IV: Folios 19-30 Part V: Folio 31-46 Part VI: Folios 47-54 Part VII: Folio 55-69;

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine title: 'Biblical Fragments, with Commentary. Hebrew & Arabic. Brit. Mus. Or. 2581A.'

Layout

Part I: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 10-12; written lines: 10-12; Part II: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 12-13; written lines: 12-13; Part III: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 12-14; written lines: 12-14; Part IV: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 13; written lines: 13; Part V: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 10-11; written lines: 10-11; Part VI: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 13-15; written lines: 13-15; Part VII: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 15; written lines: 15;

Script

Various Arabic styles of script of 11th to 12th century.Part I: A Naskhi hand of 11th to 12th century.Part II: A Naskhi hand of 11th century.Part III: A Naskhi hand of 11th century.Part IV: A Naskhi hand of 11th century.Part V: A Naskhi hand of approximately 11th century.Part VI: A Naskhi hand of approximately 11th to 12th century.Part VII: Oriental square script and a Naskhi hand of approximately 11th to 12th 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, 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 — Leviticus
• fol. 5r — Numbers
• fol. 17r — Deuteronomy
• fol. 19r — Deuteronomy
• fol. 31r — Song of Songs
• fol. 47r — Ecclesiastes
• fol. 55r — Daniel