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Or 5399

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Or 5399
Title:
Biblical commentaries and sermons
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
202 folios
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Languages:
Arabic
Hebrew
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Arabic
Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1700-1799
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CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
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Not Public Record(s)
Names:
S. Raffalovich
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 5399

Biblical commentaries and sermons

Contents

Biblical commentaries and sermons.

Language(s): Hebrew, Arabic

ff. 1r-202v
Title: Perushim
Title: פרושים

A collection of midrashic stories and exegetical explanations of biblical passages. Contains The Alphabet of Ben Sira (folios 42r-82v), and various requests in Arabic (folios 152v-154v).

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 202 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 115 × 85 mm.
Dimensions (written): 85 × 55 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

Condition

Old infills.

Dirt and stains.

A little mould-spotting towards ends.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 0

Written lines: 17

Uniform layout.

Catchwords on most of the pages.

Marginal notes.

Original Hebrew foliation.

Some simple pen and ink drawings (e.g. folio 193r).

Hand(s)

Yemenite semi-cursive script of the 18th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Rabbinical Stories. Etc. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 5399.'

History

Origin: 18th century ; Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

S. Raffalovich: purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 July 1898: 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_5399 (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. 154., vol. IV (supplement)

Funding of Cataloguing

BL