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Or 2488

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Or 2488
Title:
Commentary on the Exodus by Shemu᾿el ben Mosheh al-Magrebi
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
41 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1500-1599
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
Samuel ben Moses, al-Maghribī, fl 15th century,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000067013202,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/79254468,
Samuel ben Moses, al-Maghribī, fl 15th century,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000067013202,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/79254468,
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2488

Commentary on the Exodus by Shemu᾿el ben Mosheh al-Magrebi

Contents

The commentary on the book of Exodus (fragments).

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew

ff. 1r-41v
Title: Perush shemot
Title: פירוש שמות
Author: Shemu᾿el ben Mosheh, al-Magrebi שמואל בן משה, המערבי

Part of an Arabic commentary on Exodus 32:24-26, 31-32, 33:3-4, 35:2-40:34.

The 'questions and answers', i.e. she'elot u-teshuvot, begin on folio 28r.

The words of the biblical text are introduced by the formula: ‘קאל אלנץ אלכרים’.

Contains fragments of the same author's introduction to the weekly portions, see folios 25r-25v and 26r-26v.

Filiation: Some parts of the manuscript correspond to Or 2483 (Margoliouth, Catalogue, no. 395).

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 41 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 180 × 135 mm.
Dimensions (written): 133 × 95 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

5 quires: i? (folios 1, 2, 3, 4), xli-xliii10 (folios 5-34), xliv6 (folios 35-41). Imperfect at the end.

Signatures in Hebrew letters on the upper margin of the first page of a quire.

Condition

Several pages partially stained.

Water-damaged.

Lacunae after folios 2, 3, 4.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 14

Written lines: 14

Uniform layout.

Catchwords on every verso.

Hebrew biblical text provided with punctuation.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive script of the 16th century.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine title: 'Samuel Ha-Rofe. Comm. On Exodus. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2488.'

History

Origin: 16th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 08 July 1882: 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.

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2488 (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. 323.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL