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Or 4732

Record Id:
032-003314058
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Reference (shelfmark):
Or 4732
Title:
Shahzadah ve-tsufi by Elisha ben Samuel
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
73 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_4732 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1700-1899
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Elishaʿ ben Shemuʾel, fl 17th century
Elishaʿ ben Shemuʾel, fl 17th century
Eliyahu ben Aba [...]
S. J. A. Churchill
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 4732

Shahzadah ve-tsufi by Elisha ben Samuel

Contents

Poetical text, in Persian in Hebrew characters.

Language(s): Persian

ff. 1r-73v
Title: Shāhzādah ṿe-Tsūfī
Title: שאהזאדה וצופי
Author: Elishaʿ ben Shemuʾel, active 17th century אלישע בן שמואל

A Persian metrical version of Barlaam and Josaphat.

Filiation: Cf. Or 4744.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th to 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 73 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 190 × 140 mm.
Dimensions (written): 155 × 110 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of approximately 6 leaves each.

Condition

Worming, repaired.

Liquid stains.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 19

Written lines: 19

Uniform layout.

Vertical hard-point ruling.

Catchwords on every verso.

Initial verses in larger square charactes.

Hand(s)

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

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Sahzadah Ve-Sufi. Persian In Hebrew Character. Brit. Mus. Or. 4732.'

History

Origin: 18th-19th century ; Iran?

Provenance and Acquisition

Eliyahu ben Aba [...]: inscribed, folio 1r.

Purchased by the British Museum on 02 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_4732 (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. 945.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL