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Or 6834

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Or 6834
Title:
Commentary on the Hafṭarot of the Yemenite use
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
164 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_6834 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1700-1799
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Weiss & Co.
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 6834

Commentary on the Hafṭarot of the Yemenite use

Contents

A commentary on Hafṭarot of the Yemenite use.

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew

ff. 1r-164v
Title: Perush hafṭarot
Title: פרוש הפטרות

The text is written mainly in Arabic in Hebrew characters, intermixed with Hebrew.

The Hafṭarot are given in the order of parashiyot, of which some of Deutoronomy have been omitted entirely. The portions from Sabbath and festivals are placed at the end of the volume.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 164 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 165 × 110 mm.
Dimensions (written): 120 × 80 mm.
Foliation:

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

Hebrew original folation.

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 to 12 leaves each.

Condition

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 22 25

Written lines: 22 25

Uniform layout.

Ruling by hard point.

Larger initial words and headings.

Leaf catchwords on every verso.

Graphic filler at the end of the line.

Hand(s)

Yemenite semi-cursive script of the 18th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Commentary on Haphtaroth. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 6834.'

History

Origin: 18th century ; Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Weiss & Co.: purchased by the British Museum on 11 April 1908: inscribed, back flyleaf (i).

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_6834 (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. 1160.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL