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Title

Perush ῾al hafṭarot (פרוש על הפטרות)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2583
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2583
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Judeo-Arabic

Origin

Place

Egypt

Summary

A Judeo-Arabic commentary on the Hafṭarot of Exodus.

Notes

• Imperfect at the beginning.
   
• A number of pages partially damaged; large signs of book-worming.
   

Extent

50 folios; 50 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Comm. on Hafṭaroth. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Or. 2583.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 15; written lines: 15; Blank spaces left on folios: 5r, 5v, 10r, 12v and 14v, were intended to be filled up with figures illustrative of the building of the temple.

Script

Oriental square and semi-cursive script, unpunctuated, of approximately 15th 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, folio [51v].
   

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 — 1 Kings 5:28-6:13
• fol. 8r — Ezekiel 43:10-27.
• fol. 21r — 1 Kings 18:1-45.
• fol. 39v — 1 Kings 7:13-22
• fol. 46r — 1 Kings 7:40-50