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Or 2397

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Or 2397
Title:
῾Arukh by Nathan ben Jehiel of Rome
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
346 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1200
End Date:
1299
Date Range:
1200-1299
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
Nathan ben Jehiel, of Rome, 1035-1110
Nathan ben Jehiel, of Rome, 1035-1110
Sa῾id Yeshu῾ah
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Or 2397

῾Arukh by Nathan ben Jehiel of Rome

Contents

A talmudic lexicon.

Language(s): Hebrew, Jewish Babalonia Aramaic

ff. 1r-400v
Title: ῾Arukh
Title: ערוך
Author: Nathan ben Jehiel, of Rome, 1035-1110 נתן בן יחיאל, מרומה, 1035-1103

Imperfect at the beginning and at the end.

Filiation: Cf. the contents of Or 1264-1265 and Add MS 26881.

Physical Description

Parchment and paper codex of the 13th century.
Form: codex
Material: mixed
Support: Parchment and paper.
Extent: 346 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 250 × 160 mm.
Dimensions (written): 170 × 120 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each, marked with signatures at the beginning.

Condition

Incomplete at the beginning and at the end.

Lacuna after folio 9, 17, 272, 324.

Folio 1 and 222-227 are later restorations.

Damp stains and tidemarks at edges.

Mould spotting at ends, repaired and/or infilled before rebinding.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 24

Written lines: 24

Uniform layout.

Visible mastara ruling.

Parchment used for the first and last leaves of quires in the earlier portions only.

Hand(s)

Oriental (Byzantine) semi-cursive script of the 13th century.

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Nathan ben Jechiel. He-Arukh. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2397.'

History

Origin: 13th century ; Byzantine Empire (Greece)

Provenance and Acquisition

Sa῾id Yeshu῾ah: inscribed, folio 1r.

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

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_2397 (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. 958.

Funding of Cataloguing

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