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Title

A talmudic dictionary.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2592
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2592
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Judeo-Arabic

Origin

Summary

A talmudic dictionary.

Notes

• Incomplete at the beginning.
   
• Water damage and worming throughout.
   
• Most leaves laminated and all guarded individually before rebinding.
   
• Edges brittle.
   

Extent

86 folios; 86 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Dictionary of Roots. Hebrew & Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2592.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 20; written lines: 20; Uniform layout. Visible hard-point ruling. Initial verses in larger square charactes. Marginal notes.

Script

Oriental semi-cursive script of the 14th to 15th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased from him by the British Museum on 08 July 1882: inscribed, folio [87v] (fse001v).
   

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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