Description of British Library, Or 2503: The commentary of Japheth ben Ali ha-Levi on the book of Jeremiah.
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Several of the extant folios have been water-damaged.
Lacunae after folios: 1, 2, 8, 9, 18, 23, 35, 38, 46, 57, 69, 75, 83, 103, 111, 117, 149, 151, 153, 204, 212.
Eliyahu ben Shelomoh ben Shemu᾿el ben Eliyahu ben Aharon ben Yitsḥaḳ ben Eliyahu Firuz: inscribed, folio 3r.
Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.
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Or 2503
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The commentary of Japheth ben Ali ha-Levi on the book of Jeremiah.
Hebrew; Judeo-Arabic
The commentary of Japheth ben Ali ha-Levi on the book of Jeremiah.
Paper
252 folios; 252 folios
Columns: 1; ruled lines: 16; written lines: 16; Uniform layout. Masoretic and other notes in the margins. Visible ruling with a mastara.
Oriental square and semi-cursive script of approximately 15th century.
BM in-house.
Between 1400 and 1499
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 [253v].