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Or 2588

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Or 2588
Title:
Diwan by Joseph ben Tanchum Hayerushalmi
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
30 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2588 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1300-1399
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Joseph ben Tanchum, Hayerushalmi, b 1262,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000119882486,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/170883872
Joseph ben Tanchum, Hayerushalmi, b 1262,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000119882486,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/170883872
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2588

Diwan by Joseph ben Tanchum Hayerushalmi

Contents

Poetical pieces and personal correspondence.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-30v
Author: Joseph ben Tanchum, Hayerushalmi, 1262- יוסף בן תנחום, ירושלמי
Title: Diwan
Title: דיואן

Portions of Diwan, containing book IV, preceded by fragments of book III, and followed by a portion of book V. The headings of different poems are in Judeo-Arabic.

Folios 6r-7v contain the text of a poetical epistle, addressed by the author to David ben Abraham ben Moses Maimonides.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 30 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 235 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): 180 × 120 mm.
Foliation:

30 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 2 at the end).

Collation

Leaves mounted on modern paper (restored).

Condition

Tears/splits.

Worming.

Old repairs obscuring text.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 23

Written lines: 23

Uniform layout.

Larger square initials.

Sections numbered with Hebrew letters in the margin.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive script of the 14th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Poems. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental Ms. 2588.'

History

Origin: 14th century ; Unknown

Provenance and Acquisition

1882-07-08

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: 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.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2588 (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. 931.

Funding of Cataloguing

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