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Or 6359

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Or 6359
Title:
Fragments of biblical commentaries
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
5 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1700-1799
Era:
CE
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 6359

Fragments of biblical commentaries

Contents

Two fragments of biblical commentaries.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-1v
Title: Perush
Title: פרוש

A midrashic commentary on Ps. 30

ff. 2r-5v
Title: Leviticus
Title: ויקרא

An Arabic translation of Leviticus 1:1-7:38. Folio 4r contains a masoretic entry.

Physical Description

Paper leaves of 18th century.
Form: leaf
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 5 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 290/285 × 190/185 mm.
Dimensions (written): 285/280 × 175 mm.
Foliation:

5 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper leaf at the beginning and 13 at the end).

Collation

1 quire.

Condition

Machine lined paper.

Once stored folded, now opened and bound.

One old repair obscures text slightly.

One tear.

Slight usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 26 33

Written lines: 26 33

Uniform layout.

Marginal notes.

Ruled.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square script of the 18th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Midrashic Commentary on Psalm XXX. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 6359.'

History

Origin: 18th century ; Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Purchased by the British Museum through Raffalovich and Lipkin on 15 April 1902: inscribed, folio [18v].

1902-04-15

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_6359 (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. 1149.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL