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Title

Genesis with Targum Onḳelos and Sa'adia Gaon's Arabic translation in Hebrew characters, with superlinear punctuation.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2703
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2703
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Jewish Babylonian Aramaic (ca. 200-1200 CE); Judeo-Arabic

Origin

Place

Yemen

Summary

Genesis with Targum Onḳelos and Sa'adia Gaon's Arabic translation in Hebrew characters, with superlinear punctuation.

Notes

• Many pages mutilated, especially folios 1-11.
   

Extent

73 folios; 73 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Layout

Columns: 2 ; ruled lines: 25; written lines: 25; Visible pricking and ruling with hard-point. Writing in two columns, with superlinear masoretic punctuation.

Script

Square Yemenite handwriting; folio 73r-73v is probably later than than the whole manuscript.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 January 1884: inscribed on folio [77v].
   

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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