Description of British Library, Or 2484: MuḳadimatcontributorIlana TahancatalogerAgata PaluchThe Polonsky FoundationBritish Library2023-01-042023-01-04These images and the content of British Library Or 2484: Muḳadimat are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.To the extent possible under law, British Library has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about British Library Or 2484: Muḳadimat. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.Folios missing after folio 1, 3, 5, 6, 104, 272.Slightly stained.[...] ben Yeshu῾ah Firūz: inscribed, folio 2r of volume 1.Shelomoh Kohen ben Yosef Kohen ben Mordekhai Kohen: inscribed, folio 1v of volume 1.Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.United KingdomLondonBritish LibraryHebrew Manuscripts Digitisation ProjectOr 2484http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2484https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscriptsThe Muḳadimat, or introductions (in Arabic and Hebrew), to the weekly parashiyot of the Pentateuch, by Shemu᾿el ha-Rofe al-Maghribi in three uniform volumes (volume 3).Hebrew; Judeo-ArabicMuḳadimat1rBe-haʿalotekha6rShelaḥ lekha7rḲoraḥ25rḤuḳat44rBalaḳ66rPinḥas82rMaṭot105rMasʿe127rDevarim143rṾa-etḥanan164rʾEḳev181rRe᾿eh197rShofeṭim214rKi tetse230rKi tavo246rNitsavim262rHaʾazinu284rṾe-zot ha-berakhah
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289 folios; 289 folios Columns: 1; ruled lines: 17; written lines: 17; Uniform layout. Visible ruling with a mastara. Initial words of each section written in larger characters, preceded with a title page (see e.g. folio 1r, 6r, etc). Catchwords on every verso. The biblical verses are given with punctuation.Square and semi-cursive Oriental script of the 17th century. Avraham ben Mordekhai ha-Kohen: inscribed in volume 2, folio 220v, and volume 3, folio 126v. Avraham ha-Kohen wrote the present manuscript for his son, Yosef. The name of the latter is inscribed under the title of each Muḳadimah.
Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 08 July 1882: inscribed, folio [290v].