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Or 2704

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Or 2704
Title:
Pentateuch (parts of Numbers and Deuteronomy)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
56 folios (+ 2 unfoliated flyleaves at the beginning and 3 unfoliated flyleaves at the end of the manuscript).
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2704 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1300-1499
Era:
CE
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Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2704

Pentateuch (parts of Numbers and Deuteronomy)

Contents

Summary of Contents: A large part of the books of Numbers and Deuteronomy with a verse-by-verse translation into Aramaic and Arabic, provided with a simple superlinear punctuation.

Language(s): Hebrew, Jewish Babalonia Aramaic, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-86v
Title: Torah
Title: תורה

A large part of the books of Numbers and Deuteronomy.

Physical Description

Vellum codex of probably 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 56 folios (+ 2 unfoliated flyleaves at the beginning and 3 unfoliated flyleaves at the end of the manuscript).

Collation

Originally quires mostly of 6 leaves.

Condition

Many pages damaged and stained, ink partially faded. Some of the pages used as a scrapbook.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square script with punctutation, probably of 15th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

History

Origin: 14th-15th century ; Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 12 January 1884: inscribed, back flyleaf (ii)v.

I ()

Contents

ff. 1r-48v
Title: Numbers

Fragments of the book of Numbers, i.e. chapters 1:1-2:31; 15:39-19:6; 22:26-26:49; 29:17-30:1; 30:12-32:33; 33:32-to the end of the book, each verse being followed by the Targum and Sa'adia's Arabic translation in the Hebrew characters.

Text and Targum have the simple superlinear punctuation.

Filiation: The use of vowel-points is similar to Or 2704 (Margoliouth, Catalogue, no. 10).

Physical Description

Form: leaves
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 48 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 305 × 228 mm.
Dimensions (written): 220 × 155 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 1-48 .

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 24

Written lines: 24

Hand(s)

Yemenite square script, probably of 14th century.

II ()

Contents

ff. 49r-56v
Title: Deuteronomy

Parts of the chapter 8 of the book of Deuteronomy, i.e. chapters 3:3-4:46: text, Targum and Arabic translation accompanied with a form of Masorah magna and parva, with simple superlinear punctuation.

Physical Description

Form: leaves
Material: parchment
Support: Several parchment leaves.
Extent: 8 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 305 × 228 mm.
Dimensions (written): 220 × 155 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 49-56.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 22

Written lines: 22

Hand(s)

Yemenite square script of 14th to 15th century.

Additional Information

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2704 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), no. 113.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL