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Or 2564
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- 032-003314023
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- Or 2564
- Title:
- Fragments of Arabic commentaries on Joshua and on prayers
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 24 folios (+ 2 paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2564 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1000
- End Date:
- 1299
- Date Range:
- 1000-1299
- Era:
- CE
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Or 2564
Fragments of Arabic commentaries on Joshua and on prayers
Contents
Fragments of Arabic commentaries on Joshua and on prayers.
Language(s): Arabic
ff. 1r-24vTitle: PerushimTitle: פרושיםPhysical Description
Composite paper codex of approximately 11 to 13th century.Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport:Extent: 24 folios (+ 2 paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).Hand(s)
Three different Naskhi hands of approximately 11th to 13th century.
Binding
BM/BL in-house.
Spine: 'Comm. on Joshua. Etc. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Or. 2564.'
History
Origin: 11th-13th centuryProvenance 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, back flyleaf (i)v.
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Contents
Language(s): Arabic
ff. 1r-10vTitle: Commentary on Joshua 1:11Originally extended to the books of Judges, Samuel and Kings.
Marginal notes are marked with ز.
Some fragments contains quotations in Hebrew, but given in Arabic characters.
Physical Description
Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport:Extent: 10 foliosDimensions (leaf): 176 × 110 mm.Dimensions (written): 123 × 70 mm.Foliation:Folios 1-10.
Layout
Columns:1
Ruled lines: 15 16
Written lines: 15 16
Has many marginal notes and additions.
Hand(s)
A Naskhi hand of the 13th century, partially pointed.
History
Origin: 1211II
Contents
Language(s): Arabic
ff. 11r-18vTitle: Fragment of an Arabic treatise on prayerThere are chapter headings on folios 12v, 13v and 15r.
The manuscript was transcribed from the author's autograph copy (subscribed on folio 18v) and collated with the original.
Physical Description
Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport:Extent: 8 foliosDimensions (leaf): 178 × 115 mm.Dimensions (written): 145 × 70 mm.Foliation:Folios 11-18.
Condition
Slightly damaged.
Layout
Columns:1
Ruled lines: 19 21
Written lines: 19 21
Uniform layout.
Hand(s)
A Naskhi hand of 11th century, nearly entirely unpointed.
History
Origin: 1045III
Contents
ff. 19r-24vTitle: Treatise on prayer in Arabic (fragment)The biblical passages quoted are written in the Hebrew characters.
Filiation: Cf. the contents of [Steinschneider_1879] 200.Physical Description
Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport:Extent: 5 foliosDimensions (leaf): 185 × 130 mm.Dimensions (written): 130 × 95 mm.Foliation:Folios 19-24.
Condition
Damaged. The upper part of the leaves is imperfectly preserved.
Layout
Columns:1
Ruled lines: 12 13
Written lines: 12 13
Uniform layout.
Hand(s)
A fine Naskhi hand of the 11th to 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.Availability
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Surrogates
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2564 (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. 308.Bibliography
[Steinschneider_1879] Königliche Bibliothek zu Berlin. 'Die Handschriften-Verzeichnisse Der K̈oniglichen Bibliothek Zu Berlin. Bd. 2, Verzeichniss Der Hebræischen Handschriften / von Moritz Steinschneider.'Berlin: Buchdruckerei der KAkademie der Wissenschaften-1897, 1879.Funding of Cataloguing
BL