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Or 4742

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Or 4742
Title:
Poetical texts in Persian
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
349 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Persian
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1702
End Date:
1702
Date Range:
1702
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Hebrew
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CE
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Names:
Nāmdār
Rafa᾿el ben Mashiaḥ
S.J.A. Churchill, Esq.
Shāhīn Shīrāzī, fl 14th century
Shāhīn Shīrāzī, fl 14th century
Yehudah ben No᾿am
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Or 4742

Poetical texts in Persian

Contents

Poems in Persian, in Hebrew characters.

Language(s): Judeo-Persian, Hebrew

ff. 1r-349v
Author: Shahin שאהין
Title: Poems
Title: שירים

Persian poems embodying the narrative of the Pentateuch. The volume begins with dedicatory poems, then follows Genesis (f. 5r), and Exodus (f. 168r). The remaining portions are not marked.

F. 348 contains (in a different hand) a duplicate of a portion of Genesis.

A number of Persian stanzas with Hebrew headings, f. 2r.

A piyuṭ of Eliyah ben Binyamin ha-Leṿi, f. 347v.

The colophons seem to have been written in a different, possibly later, hand than the main scribe. The later scribe may be identified with the writer of the short note on page 323a (Khudādād ben Mūsā; כדאדאד בן מוצא), although a closer paleographical examination is required. The second colophon states that the scribe of “the Book of Shāhīn” is deceased. Interestingly, the name of the scribe mentioned in this colophon is Amīnā, which happen to be the pen-name of the Jewish poet Benjamin ben Mishael of Kāshān (1672/73 - after 1732/33). The date of copying (1702) makes it possible that Shāhīn's work was indeed copied by Benjamin ben Mishael in the city of Kāshān. However, there is always the possibility that a later scribe attributed this manuscript to Amīnā in order to increase its value. (Information provided by Ofir Haim.)

Colophon: שנת התסב נוישתה שוד כה אדר הצעיר עבד יי f. 167r
Colophon: תמאם שד אין כתאב שאהין בסדת חקיר ופקיר החכם השלם מ' אמינה ע"ה דר רוז ג' שבת כ"ה במאה סיון שנת התסב ליצירה אלאהי אמיד וארם כה מבארך באשנד בר כאננדה גאן אין כתאב ובר נויסנדה א'נ'ס'ה' א'ו'י'ר תם'. f. 347v

Physical Description

Paper codex of the early 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 349 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 255 × 200 mm.
Dimensions (written): 225 × 140 mm.
Foliation:

349 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Original Hebrew foliation.

Collation

Indeterminable (rebound, modern restoration).

Condition

Incomplete.

Damages repaired and infilled before rebinding. Some older repairs obscure the text.

Damp entry at edges, often with dark staining.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 28

Written lines: 28

Uniform layout.

Catchwords on every verso.

Marginal additions.

Hand(s)

Persian semi-cursive script of the 18th century.

ff. 1-4
and f. 347 are in a different hand than the main scribe.

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Molla Shahin. Bible Stories in Verse. Persian in Hebr. Character. Brit. Mus. Or. 4742.'

History

Origin: 1702 Iran?

Provenance and Acquisition

Rafa᾿el ben Mashiaḥ: inscribed, f. 1r.

Yehudah ben No᾿am: inscribed, f. 347v.

Nāmdār: inscribed, f. 323r.

1894-02

Purchased by the British Museum in February 1894 from S.J.A. Churchill, Esq.: inscribed, folio [350v].

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

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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. 942.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL