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Or 2377

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Or 2377
Title:
Hagiographa
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
225 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2377 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1300-1399
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
Rashi, 1040-1105
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2377

Hagiographa

Contents

Parts of the Hagiographa, provided with vowel-points and accents, with partial Arabic and Aramaic translation.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-225v
Title: Ketuvim
Title: כתובים
ff. 1r-35v
Title: Proverbs

Missing chapters: 1:1-5:2, 31:18-31.

ff. 36r-52r
Title: Lamentations

Ps. 137 written at the end of this book by a later hand.

Missing verses 1:1-2.

ff. 52r-54v
Title: Ecclesiastes

Wanting chapters 1:1-2:5, 2:11-11:10, 12:6-14.

ff. 54v-88v
Title: Daniel

Preceded by a fragment of a Hebrew poem.

ff. 88v-94r
Title: Megilat Antiochus

Aramaic text with the simple superlinear punctuation and Arabic translation; imperfect.

ff. 94r-142r
Title: Esther

Missing several verses.

Provided with the so called Targum sheni.

Followed by a fragment of a rhymed poem in Judeo-Arabic, containing the history of the book, folios 139r-141r.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic
ff. 142r-168r
Title: Ezra
ff. 168r-225v
Title: Chronicles

Missing several verses.

Physical Description

Paper codex of 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 225 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 255 × 200 mm.
Dimensions (written): 190 × 140 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Originally 28 quires of 10 leaves each, signed with Hebrew letters on the first and last pages, and marked with catchwords on the last page.

Currently most quires are incomplete.

Condition

A large portion is missing at the beginning and at the end. Several folios are missing within the manuscript.

Considerable amount od folios are imperfectly preserved, especially damaged are folios 66, 88, 93, 11-115, 121-122, 134.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 18

Written lines: 18

Uniform layout.

Omissions supplied in smaller writing in the margin.

Centre-marks and the number of verses frequently given.

Scant masorah parva.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square script, punctuated and accentuated, of 14th century.

ff. 1r-141v
and
ff. 142r-225v
- main text provided by two contemporary hands, the first part being suplied with a simple superlinear punctuation only .

Additions:

On the margin of folios 55r, 145r are expository notes which partly agree with Rashi.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Hagiographa with Arab. Vers. & Targum. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2377.'

History

Origin: 14th century ; Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 23 July 1881: inscribed, back flyleaf (i)v.

1881-07-23

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_2377 (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. 145.

Funding of Cataloguing

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