Description of British Library, Or 2463: Perushim
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All folios partially water-damaged and/or mutilated.
Several lacunae.
Water-damaged.
Several folios are mutilated.
Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.
United Kingdom
London
British Library
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Or 2463
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A Judeo-Arabic commentary of Japhet ben Ali on Genesis 1 and Genesis 18.
Hebrew; Judeo-Arabic
Perushim
1r
Commentary on Genesis 1
10r
Commentary on Genesis 18:25-50:7
Paper
Part I: Folios 1-9. Part II: Folios 10-103.;
Part I: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 19; written lines: 19; Biblical quotations with the Arabic translation is embodied. Part II: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 21; written lines: 21; Hebrew punctuation is given in red ink. Biblical quotations are provided separately in the upper part of the page, followed by translation in the lower part of the page.
Part I: Oriental semi-cursive of 16th to 17th century.Part II: Oriental square and semi-cursive script of 16th to 17th century, partially punctuated.
BM/BL in-house.
Between 1500 and 1699
Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 08 July 1882, folio [104v].