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Or 2491

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Or 2491
Title:
Fragments of the Pentateuch with Arabic translation
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
63 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1403
End Date:
1403
Date Range:
1403
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Seleucid
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CE
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Names:
Jeshua ben Judah, 1000-1099
Jeshua ben Judah, 1000-1099
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
ha-Levi, Japheth ben Ali, 0900-0999
ha-Levi, Japheth ben Ali, 0900-0999
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Or 2491

Fragments of the Pentateuch with Arabic translation

Contents

Summary of Contents: Fragments of Genesis, Exodus, Numbers and Deuteronomy, with the Arabic translation of the Karaite Yeshuʿah ben 'Ari or al-Shaikh Abu 'l-Faraj Furḳan ibn Asad; fragments of Genesis with the Arabic translation of the Karaite Japhet ben Ali.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

Physical Description

Composite paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 63 folios

Condition

Badly damaged.

Layout

Columns:1

Oriental paper, ruled with mastara.

History

Provenance and Acquisition

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

I ()

Contents

Summary of Contents: Fragments of Genesis, Exodus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. Pointed and accentuated Hebrew text, with the Arabic translation of the Karaite Yeshu'ah ben 'Ari or al-Shaikh Abu 'l-Faraj Furḳan ibn Asad.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-41v
Title: Fragments of Genesis, Exodus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.

Pointed and accentuated Hebrew text, with the Arabic translation of the Karaite Jeshua ben Judah.

The following portions of Hebrew text are preserved: Genesis 3:23-5:3, 19:28-35; 25:20-23; 29:13-18; 41:52-56; 42:8-13; 43:5-12. Exodus: 29:30-39; 44-30:26. Numbers: 1:35-39; 7:88-8:6; 11:27-31; 12:9-13:2; 14:31-34; 16:33-17:3; 21:18-23; 28:25-28; 36:3-5; 13. Deuteronomy: 6:1-4; 12:12-23; 28:63-66; 31-17-19.

Colophon: כתבתי אני העבד הצעיר המקוה רחמי צורו יצחק בן שמאול בן יוסף בן שמואל הנטמן בירוש' בכבוד תחת כסא הכבוד מנו' כ' בן כוגך וכאן אלפראג מן אלגזוין והמא ספר במדבר פסוק נץ ופשאטה תחתה תרגמה מר' ור' הח' המש' ישועה בן ארי ידיע אלש' אבו אלפרג פרקאן מנו' כ' פי יום אלאתנין סאבע שבט סנה אלף וסבע מאיה וארבעה עשר. f. 35v
Author: Jeshua ben Judah ישועה בן יהודה

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 41 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 184 × 133 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 1-41

Collation

Uncertain. Leaves are missing after folios: 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 17, 23, 24, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 39, 40 and 41.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 11

Written lines: 11

The beginning of the weekly section is indicated in the margin by the word פרש' enclosed in a rough pen and ink design.

The number of verses in each weekly section is registered at the end.

Hand(s)

Square and semi-cursive Oriental script.

History

Origin: 1403 Syria, Lebanon, or Iraq?

Provenance

II ()

Contents

Fragments of Genesis with the Arabic translation of Japheth ben Ali.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 42r-63v
Author: Japheth ben Ali, ha-Levi יפת בן עלי, הלוי
Title: Genesis

Contains chapters: 4:10-14; 5:8-14; 8:1-9:6; 44:25-29; 45:3-9; 47:4-6, 11-14, 24-31; 48:4-22;49:11-23 with the parallel Arabic translation of Yefet ben ʿAli, which starts with Gen. 4:9b.

Several masoretic notes.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 21 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end of the manuscript).
Dimensions (leaf): 184 × 133 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 42-63.

Collation

Uncertain. Leaves wanting after folios 42, 43, 49, 50, 52, 53, 54, 56, 61 and 63.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 13

Written lines: 13

Hebrew text written in square script, with a simple punctuation and accentuation.

Hand(s)

Oriental square and semi-cursive script.

History

Origin: 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_2491 (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. 93.

Funding of Cataloguing

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