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Or 2547

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032-003314018
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Or 2547
Title:
Commentary on the Prophets by Japheth ben Ali ha-Levi
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
290 folios
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Languages:
Arabic
Hebrew
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Arabic
Hebrew
Start Date:
1000
End Date:
1099
Date Range:
1000-1099
Era:
CE
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Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
ha-Levi, Japheth ben Ali, 0900-0999
ha-Levi, Japheth ben Ali, 0900-0999
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Or 2547

Commentary on the Prophets by Japheth ben Ali ha-Levi

Contents

Summary of Contents: The book of Joshua, Judges and Samuel in Arabic characters, with punctuation, accentuation, an Arabic translation and a commentary of Yefet ben ʿEli.

Language(s): Hebrew, Arabic

ff. 1r-290v
Title: Perush nevi'im
Title: פרוש נביאים

Contains the pointed and accentuated biblical text in Arabic characters, accompanied by an Arabic translation and commentary.

The transcription from Hebrew into Arabic is phonetic.

A number of masoretic notes.

Author: Japheth ben Ali, ha-Levi,‏ active 10th century יפת בן עלי, הלוי

Physical Description

Paper codex of approximately 11th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 290 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 215 × 170 mm.
Dimensions (written): 170 × 130 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of 10 leaves each, most of them incomplete.

Quires signed with Arabic numerals, only partially preserved.

Several major lacunae in between the quires.

Condition

Lacunae after folios 1, 9, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 25, 26, 34, 35, 36, 42, 43, 44, 50, 51, 52, 61, 69, 137, 138, 139, 140, 176, 182, 183, 191, 206, 210, 211, 217, 223, 232, 238, 248. Blank leaves inserted to mark lacunae.

A number of folios have been more or less mutilated.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 14 17

Written lines: 14 17

The pointed and accentuated biblical text in Arabic characters is embodied.

The diacritic points are generally added.

Hand(s)

A Naskhi hand of approximately 11th century.

Additions:

Folios 288r-290v have been added later, contain the Hebrew text in Arabic transcription of Judges 20:18-35, 21:5-14. The Hebrew vowel-points and accents are given in red ink. Space fillers in gold. Probably of 10th century. The handwriting is similar to the one in the appendix of 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. 278..

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Joshua, Judges & Samuel. Hebrew & Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2547.'

History

Origin: 11th century. ; Orient?

Provenance and Acquisition

1882-07-08

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 08 July 1882, 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_2547 (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. 278.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL