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Or 2497

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Or 2497
Title:
Fragments of Arabic biblical commentaries
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
26 folios (+ 2 paper flyleaves at the beginning and 9 at the end).
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2497 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1200
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1200-1399
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Jeshua ben Judah, 1000-1099
Jeshua ben Judah, 1000-1099
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
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Or 2497

Fragments of Arabic biblical commentaries

Contents

Fragments of Arabic commentaries on Exodus, Numbers and forbidden degrees of marriage.

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew

ff. 1r-26v
Title: Perushim
Title: פרושים

Physical Description

Paper codex of approximately 13-14th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 26 folios (+ 2 paper flyleaves at the beginning and 9 at the end).

Hand(s)

Three different Oriental semi-cursive scripts of approximately 13th to 14th century.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Com. on Numbers, etc. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2497.'

History

Origin: 13th-14th century

Provenance and Acquisition

1882-07-08

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 08 July 1882: inscribed, back flyleaf (ix)v.

I

Contents

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew

ff. 1r-2v
Title: Commentary on Exodus 24 (the shorter commentary)

Includes the pointed and accentuated Hebrew text of verses 12-18, with an Arabic translation of verses 12-17.

Each of the leaves forms a separate fragment of the work.

Author: Abu al-Faraj Furḳan, active 11th century ישועה בן יהודה
Filiation: The contents of folio
ff. 1r-1v
agree with Or 2545 (Margoliouth, Catalogue, no. 311), folio
ff. 105r-105v
, and the translation of verses 15-17 (folio f. 2v ) also agrees with that contained in the same manuscript, folio f. 108r, 108v .

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 2 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 250 × 160 mm.
Dimensions (written): 190 × 115 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 1-2

Collation

Two separate leaves.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 27

Written lines: 27

The Hebrew biblical text is embodied.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive script, of approximately the 13th century.

II

Contents

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew

ff. 3r-18v
Title: Commentary on Numbers 35 (fragment)

Includes the pointed and accentuated Hebrew text of verses 9-34, with an Arabic translation.

The author's longer recension is referred to in the comments on verse 30 (folio f. 17r ).

Filiation: Folios
ff. 15v-18v
correspond to Or. 2546 (Margoliouth, Catalogue, no. 312), folios
ff. 127r-131r
.
Author: Abu al-Faraj Furḳan, active 11th century ישועה בן יהודה

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 15 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 268 × 175 mm.
Dimensions (written): 200 × 110 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 2-18.

Collation

Fragments of two quires (nos. 33 and 34), signed with Arabic numerals on the left-hand upper corner of the first page, also marked with a catchword at the end.

Condition

Slightly damaged.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 24

Written lines: 24

The pointed Hebrew biblical text is embodied.

Catchwords on every verso.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive script of approximately the 13th to 14th century.

III

Contents

ff. 19r-26v
Title: On the forbidden degrees of marriage
Author: Abu al-Faraj Furḳan, active 11th century ישועה בן יהודה

Includes quotations from al-Ḳirḳisani and ῾Anan.

Filiation: Cf. the contents of MS St. Petersburg - Russian National Library Evr. Arab. I 2068.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 7 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 232 × 157 mm.
Dimensions (written): 200 × 120 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 19-26

Condition

The upper part of the leaves is imperfectly preserved.

Stuck on modern paper.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 25

Written lines: 25

Hand(s)

A semi-cursive script of approximately the 14th 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_2497 (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. 314.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL