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Or 4731

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032-003314057
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Or 4731
Title:
Collection of poetrical works in Persian
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
222 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_4731 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Judeo-Persian
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1700-1899
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Benjamin ben Mishael,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/76246240
Lutuf, Babai
S. J. A. Churchill
Shim῾on Ashkenazi
באבאי בן לוטף
בנימין בן משאל
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 4731

Collection of poetrical works in Persian

Contents

Poetical texts, in Persian in Hebrew characters.

Language(s): Judaeo-Persian

ff. 1r-24v
Title: Timsal namah
Title: תמתאל נאמה

The stories of Seven Vezirs, in a Persian Masnawi redaction by rabbi Yehudah.

ff. 25r-35v
Title: Eldad ha-Dani
Title: אלדד הדני

The story of Eldad ha-Dani, in Persian prose in Hebrew characters.

ff. 36r-41v
Title: Tafsir megilah
Title: תפסיר מגילה

The story of Esther, in Persian Masnawi verse.

Author: Benjamin ben Mishael בנימין בן משאל
ff. 42r-46v
Title: Kitab makhzan
Title: כתאב מכזן

A Persian Masnawi poem.

ff. 47r-48v
Title: Shir shevaḥ le-Eliyahu
Title: שיר שבח לאליהו

A poem in praise of Elijah, in Persian verse.

Author: Lutuf, Babai באבאי בן לוטף
ff. 49r-51v
Title: Piyuṭim
Title: פיוטים

Liturgical pieces in Hebrew. Imperfect.

ff. 52r-103v
Title: Alfa beta le-Ben Sira
Title: אלפא ביתא דבן סירא
ff. 104r-134v
Title: Sipur ha-meragelim be-ḥaruzim
Title: ספור המרגלים בחרוזים

The stories of Joshua, Phineas, and Caleb, in Persian Masnawi verse.

ff. 135r-143v
Title: Eldad ha-Dani
Title: אלדד הדני

Imperfect.

ff. 144r-218v
Title: Shahzadah ṿe-tsufi
Title: שאהזאדה וצופי
Filiation: Cf. Or 4743.
ff. 219r-222v
Title: Ḥakhiyat az sah Yahudan Tagr
Title: חכיאת אז סה יהודאן תאגר
Filiation: Cf. Or 4744.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th to 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 222 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 205 × 165 mm.
Dimensions (written): 170 × 140 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Leaves on guards.

Condition

Mostly repaired/infilled before rebinding.

Stains at edges, often extending across large area of text.

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 21

Written lines: 21

Uniform layout.

Vertical hard-point ruling.

Catchwords on every verso.

Initial verses and titles in larger square charactes.

Blue Persian paper.

Hand(s)

Persian semi-cursive script of the 18th to 19th century.

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Timsal Namah, Etc. Persian In Hebr. Character. Brit. Mus. Or. 4731.'

History

Origin: 18th-19th century ; Iran?

Provenance and Acquisition

Shim῾on Ashkenazi, folio 43r.

Purchased by the British Museum on 2 February 1894 from S. J. A. Churchill, Esq. (b. 1862, d. 1921), a British diplomat, art connoisseur and author: 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_4731 (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. 946.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL