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Or 2453

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032-003313989
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Or 2453
Title:
Collection of poetical texts in Judeo-Persian
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
220 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2453 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Persian
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1500-1599
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Adolph Neubauer
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2453

Collection of poetical texts in Judeo-Persian

Contents

Poetical texts in Persian, in Hebrew characters.

Language(s): Judaeo-Persian, Hebrew

ff. 1r-33v
Title: Yusuf and Zulaikha
Title: יוסף וזליכה

A fragment of Jami's Yusuf and Zulaikha, transcribed into Hebrew characters. Incomplete.

ff. 34r-220v
Title: Poems
Title: שירים

Masnawi poems on the stories of Ruth, Samuel, Saul, and David. Incomplete.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 220 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 195 × 125 mm.
Dimensions (written): 160 × 125 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Leaves on guards.

Condition

Long-term damp entry, tidemarks at all edges.

All folios guarded individually before rebinding, ends repaired and/or infilled.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 15 18

Written lines: 15 18

Uniform layout.

Catchwords on every verso.

Hand(s)

Persian semi-cursive scripts of the 16th century.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Biblical Epopee. Persian. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2453.'

History

Origin: 1500-1599 16th century Iran?

Provenance and Acquisition

Purchased by the British Museum on 24 June 1882 from Adolph Neubauer (b. 1831, d. 1907), a librarian at the Bodleian Library and reader in Rabbinic Hebrew at Oxford University: 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_2453 (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. 949.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL