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- Arabic biblical commentaries
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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:
- [ii]+141+[ii]
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- Languages:
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- Start Date:
- 0900
- End Date:
- 1099
- Date Range:
- 0900-1099
- Era:
- CE
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Or 2552
Arabic biblical commentaries
Contents
Fragments of Japheth ben Ali's Arabic commentary on Job, and Arabic commentaries on Ecclesiastes and Lamentations.
Language(s): Arabic, Hebrew
ff. 1r-141vTitle: PerushimTitle: פרושיםPhysical Description
Paper codex of approximately 11 and 10th century, respectively.Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport:Extent: [ii]+141+[ii]Hand(s)
Naskhi scripts of approximately 11 and 10th century, respectively.
Binding
BM/BL in-house.
Spine: 'Job. With Yefet's Comm. Etc. Hebrew & Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2552.'
History
Origin: 0900-1099 10th-11th centuryProvenance and Acquisition
A previous owner's note, partly illegible, on folio 90r.
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.
I
Contents
ff. 1r-89vTitle: Commentary on JobThis portions of the manuscript contains Job 1:6, 2:8-10, 3:1-3, 10-11, 3:25-4:1, 5:25-6:25, 11:10-11, 11:!5-12:8, 12:21-24, 13:27-14:5, 24:11-22, 15:2-3, 5-14, 16:19-21, 20:4-11, 29:1-4, 31:7-32:8, 32:14-33:30, 34:5-9, 20-37, 35:8-15, 36:3-21, 25-28, 36:32-37:24, 38:12-32, 37-40, 40:19-41:19, both the Hebrew text and Yefet's translation with commentary.
The Hebrew text is written in Arabic characters and provided with the Hebrew vowel-points and accents in red.
The method of transcription from Hebrew to Arabic is phonetic.
Physical Description
Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport:Extent: 89 foliosDimensions (leaf): 232 × 185 mm.Dimensions (written): 172 × 130 mm.Foliation:Folios 1-89.
Collation
Fragments of separate quires, probably of originally 10 leaves each.
Condition
All folios partially damaged.
Layout
Columns:1
Ruled lines: 15
Written lines: 15
The Hebrew punctuation and accentuation is given in red ink.
Hand(s)
Naskhi script of the 11th century.
II
Contents
ff. 90r-141vTitle: Commentary on Ecclesiastes and LamentationsComprises fragments of Ecc. 1:1-2:10, 2:23-4:16, 5:9-7:27, 10:8-11:6, 12:2-12; Lam. 2:1-16, 4:5-5:22.
Of the Hebrew text only the first words of verses (in an Arabic phonetic transcription) are given, being marked in the margin.
ff. 90r-120vTitle: Ecclesiastesff. 121r-141vTitle: LamentationsPhysical Description
Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport:Extent: 52 foliosDimensions (leaf): 235 × 180 mm.Dimensions (written): 175 × 125 mm.Foliation:Folios 90-141.
Collation
Separate leaves from different quires.
Condition
The latter portions are in a very bad condition and in many stances hardly legible.
Layout
Columns:1
Ruled lines: 10 12
Written lines: 10 12
Uniform layout.
Hand(s)
Naskhi script of the 10th century.
Additional Information
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_2552 (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. 299.[Hoerning_1889] 7-8Bibliography
[Hoerning_1889] Reinhart Hoerning. 'British Museum Karaite Mss. : Descriptions and Collation of Six Karaite Manuscripts of Portions of the Hebrew Bible in Arabic Characters ; with a Complete Reproduction by the Autotype Process of One, Exodus I, 1-VIII, 5 in 42 Facsimiles / Reinhart Hoerning.'London: Williams and Norgate, 1889.Funding of Cataloguing
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