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Or 2563
Title:
Fragments of the Arabic commentaries on Numbers and Deuteronomy, and parts of Sefer ha-mitsṿot
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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:
100 folios (i+100+i)
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Arabic
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Start Date:
1100
End Date:
1199
Date Range:
1100-1199
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CE
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Names:
Abu Sa῾id Levi ben al-Ḥasan ben ῾Ali al-Baṣri
Abu al-Faraj Harun al-Faraj
Ar-Ra'is Abu Sa'id
Shaikh Abu Ya῾ḳub ibn Nuḥ
῾Ali ben Sulaiman
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Or 2563

Fragments of the Arabic commentaries on Numbers and Deuteronomy, and parts of Sefer ha-mitsṿot

Contents

Fragments of the Arabic commentaries on Numbers and Deuteronomy, and parts of Sefer ha-mitsṿot.

Language(s): Arabic

ff. 1r-100v
Title: Perushim
Title: פרושים

Physical Description

Composite paper codex of approximately 12th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 100 folios (i+100+i)

Hand(s)

Two different Naskhi hands of approximately 12th century.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

History

Origin: 12th century

I

Contents

Language(s): Arabic

ff. 1r-89v
Title: Commentary on Numbers and Deuteronomy (fragments)

Contians parts of an anonymous commentaries on: Numbers 3, 5, 15-17, 18-22, 27, 30, 31 and Deuteronomy 1, 2, 7-8, 11, 12, 14, 16, 21-23, 25, 26, 27, 29-32, compiled by ῾Ali ben Sulaiman from the commentaries of ar-Ra᾿is Abu Sa῾id and Abu al-Faraj Harun al-Faraj's abridgement of the commentary of Shaikh Abu Ya῾ḳub ibn Nuḥ.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 89 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 206 × 112 mm.
Dimensions (written): 197 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 1-89.

Collation

Quires of originally 12 leaves each.

Quires signed with Arabic numerals on the upper margin of the first page, and with catchwords on the lower margin of the last page.

Only quires nos. 13-24, 25-26, 37-48 are complete.

Condition

A number of the extant leaves are imperfectly preserved.

Folios 1, 2, 3, 11, 49, 77-89 are seriosuly damaged.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 26 27

Written lines: 26 27

Uniform layout.

Hand(s)

A Naskhi hand of the 12th century.

II

Contents

Language(s): Arabic

ff. 90r-100v
Title: Sefer ha-mitsṿot (fragments)

Contains fragments of the 4th part of Sefer ha-mitsṿot in Arabic.

Folios 99-100 contain a fragment of the chapter on priests (Lev. 21).

Author: Abu Sa῾id Levi ben al-Ḥasan ben ῾Ali al-Baṣri
Filiation: Cf. [Neubauer_1891] 857.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 11 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 178 × 120 mm.
Dimensions (written): 170 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 90-100.

Condition

Folios 90, 91, 97-100 are imperfectly preserved.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 24 26

Written lines: 24 26

Uniform layout.

Hand(s)

A cursive Naskhi hand of 12th century.

Additional Information

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_2563 (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. 309.

Bibliography

    [Neubauer_1891] Neubauer, Adolf. 'Petite Grammaire Hébraïque Provenant de Yemen, Texte Arabe Publíe d’après Les Manuscrits Connus'. Leipzig: O. Harrassowitz, 1891.

Funding of Cataloguing

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