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

Title

Perushim

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

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

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2581b
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Judeo-Arabic; Hebrew

Origin

Summary

Several fragments of Arabic translations and commentaries on the Bible.

Notes

• Partly damaged.
   
• Worm-eaten.
   
• Partly damaged.
   
• Worm-eaten.
   
• Stained, with parts of writing illegible.
   
• Slightly worm-eaten.
   
• Ink much faded.
   
• S;ightly stained..
   
• Stained.
   
• Partly damaged.
   
• Worm-eaten.
   
• Damaged.
   
• Much damaged.
   
• Worm-eaten.
   
• Stained.
   
• Much stained.
   
• Fading ink.
   
• Partially stained.
   
• Slightly stained.
   
• Damaged margins.
   
• Damaged.
   
• Stained.
   
• Stained.
   
• Worm-eaten.
   
• Much stained.
   
• Much damaged.
   

Extent

Part I: Folios 1-4 Part II: Folios 5-6 Part III: Folios 7-8 Part IV: Folio 9 Part V: Folio 10 Part VI: Folios 11-12 Part VII: Folio 13-15 Part VIII: Folios 16-25 Part IX: Folios 26-27 Part X: Folios 28-35 Part XI: Folio 36 Part XII: Folio 37 Part XIII: Folios 38-43 Part XIV: Folio 44-49 Part XV: Folios 50-53 Part XVI: Folios 54-55 Part XVII: Folios 56-63 Part XVIII: Folio 64;

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine title: 'Karaitic Commentary on Prophets and Psalms. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental MS. 2581B.'

Layout

Part I: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 15; written lines: 15; Visible hard-point ruling. Part II: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 13-14; written lines: 13-14; Part III: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 17; written lines: 17; Part IV: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 17; written lines: 17; Part V: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 22; written lines: 22; Part VI: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 22-25; written lines: 22-25; Part VII: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 19-22; written lines: 19-22; Part VIII: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 7-8; written lines: 7-8; Part IX: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 15-16; written lines: 15-16; Part X: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 14; written lines: 14; Part XI: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 19; written lines: 19; Part XII: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 19; written lines: 19; Part XIII: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 19; written lines: 19; Part XIV: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 11-12; written lines: 11-12; Part XV: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 16-18; written lines: 16-18; Part XVI: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 8; written lines: 8; Part XVII: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 13; written lines: 13; Visible ruling. Part XVIII: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 17; written lines: 17;

Script

Various Naskhi hands of 11th to 12th century.Part I: A Naskhi hand of approximately 11th to 12th century.Part II: A Naskhi hand of approximately 11th to 12th century.Part III: A Naskhi hand of approximately 11th to 12th century.Part IV: A small Arabic script of approximately 11th to 12th century.Part V: A small Arabic script of approximately 11th to 12th century.Part VI: A small Arabic script of approximately 11th to 12th century.Part VII: An Arabic script of approximately 11th to 12th century.Part VIII: A Naskhi hand of 11th to 12th century.Part IX: An Arabic script of approximately 11th to 12th century, with Hebrew punctuation.Part X: An Arabic script of approximately 11th to 12th century.Part XI: A small Arabic script of approximately 11th to 12th century.Part XII: A small Arabic script of approximately 11th to 12th century.Part XIII: A small Arabic script of approximately 11th to 12th century.Part XIV: A Naskhi hand of approximately 11th to 12th century.Part XV: A Naskhi hand of approximately 11th to 12th century.Part XVI: A Naskhi hand of approximately 11th to 12th century.Part XVII: A Naskhi hand of approximately 11th to 12th century.Part XVIII: 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 — Commentary on Genesis
• fol. 5r — Commentary on Genesis
• fol. 7r — Exodus
• fol. 9r — Commentary on Exodus
• fol. 10r — Commentary on Exodus 20
• fol. 11r — Commentary on Exodus
• fol. 13r — Commentary on Leviticus
• fol. 16r — Commentary on Leviticus
• fol. 26r — Leviticus
• fol. 28r — Commentary on Numbers
• fol. 36r — Commentary on Joshua
• fol. 37r — Commentary on Judges
• fol. 38r — Commentary on Isaiah
• fol. 44r — Commentary on Hosea
• fol. 50r — Commentary on Habakuk and Zephaniah
• fol. 54r — Commentary on Song of Songs
• fol. 56r — Commentary on Song of Songs
• fol. 64r — Commentary on Nehemiah