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Or 2367
Title:
Genesis and Exodus
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
234 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
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Start Date:
1425
End Date:
1425
Date Range:
1425
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CE
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Or 2367

Genesis and Exodus

Contents

Summary of Contents: Genesis and Exodus with Targum Onḳelos and Sa'adyah Ga'on's Arabic translation, with Hebrew grammar Maḥberet al-tigan (מחברת אלתיגאן) at the beginning of the manuscript.

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

ff. 1v-234r
Title: Bereshit u-shemot
Title: בראשית ושמות
Language(s): Hebrew, Aramaic, Judeo-Arabic

The books of Genesis and Exodus accompanied by the Targum of Onḳelos and Sa'adyah's Arabic translation and preceded by the Maḥberet al-tigan.

The Hebrew text is provided with the ordinary vowel-signs and accents, while the Targum has the simple superlinear punctuation.

Some text has been blacked out on folio 22v.

Colophon: יזכה הכותב והנכתב לו לחזות ביו"ב(?) נשלם יום ה' ב' יומין מרחשון ק'פ'ו' f. 22r
ff. 1v-22r
Title: Maḥberet al-tigan
Title: מחברת אלתיגאן
ff. 23v-137v
Title: Genesis
ff. 138r-234r
Title: Exodus

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 234 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 290/295 × 190-200 mm.
Dimensions (written): 240 × 145 mm.
Foliation:

234 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each. In the first part (folios 1v-22v) catchwords on every verso.

Condition

Several leaves mutilated, some of them have been mended.

Layout

Columns:2 3

Ruled lines: 26

Written lines: 26

Visible ruling with mastara.

Main Hebrew text of Genesis and Exodus written in 12-13 lines, accompanied with translation arranged in 26 lines. The first section of the mansucript, being a Hebrew grammar (ספר אלתיגאן), is arranged in two columns, with a catchwork at the end of each column (except modern addition on folios 1-3, which is written in one column).

Some marginal masoretic notes.

Subdivision of the weekly sections marked with Hebrew letters in the margins, but two other types of subdivision also indicated.

A masoretic statement indicating the number of verses at the end of each pericope.

A rubric giving the number of verses together with the numbers of the open and closed sections given at the end of each book.

Hand(s)

Square and semi-cursive Yemenite handwriting executed by several hands; some additions are much later than the whole manuscript (folios 1-3).

Decoration

Pen-decorated designs marking the beginnings of weekly sections.

Pen-decorated designs marking the beginnings of weekly sections.

Additions:

Folios 126, 164-165, 167-168, 170 and 177 are later additions on Oriental paper; and several patches of the same paper, same later hand on other folios. Folios 1-3 are a much later addition on modern notebook paper.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Genesis & Exodus with Targum and Arab. Vers. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Harley 5510.'

History

Origin: 15th century, with some later additions ; Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 23 July 1884; inscribed with his name on back flyleaf verso.

1884-07-23

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_2367 (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. 106.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL