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Or 1302

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032-003313970
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Or 1302
Title:
Parts of the Hagiographa with translation and commentary in Arabic
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
276 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1302 (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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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Salām ben Yosef
Saʿadiah Gaon
Yaḥya ben Tsalaḥ
Yaḥya ben Yudah
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 1302

Parts of the Hagiographa with translation and commentary in Arabic

Contents

Parts of the Hagiographa, provided with simple superlinear punctuation and a translation and commentary in Arabic.

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

ff. 1r-275v
Title: Ketuvim
Title: כתובים

The Arabic translation and commentary of the Psalms, as also the Arabic translation of the book of Proverbs, are of Saʿadiah Gaon's authorship.

Several masoretic notes and rubrics are scattered throughout the manuscript.

ff. 1r-9v
Title: Ruth

Missing chapters 1:1-2:12.

Has also a Targum with superlinear punctuation.

Filiation: [Neubauer_1994] 2484, [Steinschneider_1879] 129.
ff. 9v-123v
Title: Psalms
ff. 123v-154r
Title: Proverbs
ff. 154r-186v
Title: Song of Songs

Has also a Targum with superlinear punctuation.

ff. 186v-275v
Title: Ecclesiastes

Last chapter incomplete.

Has also a Targum with superlinear punctuation.

Physical Description

Paper codex of 14-15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 276 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 260 × 200 mm.
Dimensions (written): 215 × 145 mm.
Foliation:

276 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

29 quires originally of 10 leaves each, quire no. 1 and 29 are incomplete.

The quires are signed with Hebrew letters on the upper margin of the first and the lower margin of the last page of a quire.

Condition

Folios 253, 274 and 275 are imperfect.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 24

Written lines: 24

Uniform layout.

Ruled with mastara.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square script, punctuated, of 14th to 15th century.

Additions:

Anonymous subscriptions by the scribe, folios 153v, 186v.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Rabbi Sadia on the Psalms, Etc. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1302.'

History

Origin: 14th-15th century ; Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Yaḥya ben Yudah, Yaḥya ben Tsalaḥ, Salām ben Yosef: inscribed in the notes of ownership, folio 1r.

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_1302 (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. 166.

Bibliography

    [Neubauer_1994] NeubauerAd. comp. 'Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library and in the College Libraries of Oxford'. Oxford Clarendon Pr1994reprint of 1886 edition, 1994.
    [Steinschneider_1879] Königliche Bibliothek zu Berlin. 'Die Handschriften-Verzeichnisse Der K̈oniglichen Bibliothek Zu Berlin. Bd. 2, Verzeichniss Der Hebræischen Handschriften / von Moritz Steinschneider.'Berlin: Buchdruckerei der KAkademie der Wissenschaften-1897, 1879.

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