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Or 14020 A

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Or 14020 A
Title:
Targum ῾aravi la-Torah ve-ḥamesh megilot
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360 folios
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Languages:
Judeo-Arabic
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1571
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1571
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1571
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Names:
Isakhar ben Mordekhai Susan
Susan, Issachar ben Mordecai, b 1510?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000062743783,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/17127610
Susan, Issachar ben Mordecai, b 1510?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000062743783,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/17127610
Ya῾aḳov Boḳriyah
῾Ag'ami ben Yosef ῾Ag'ami
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Or 14020 A

Targum ῾aravi la-Torah ve-ḥamesh megilot

Contents

An Judeo-Arabic translation of the Torah and the Five Scrolls.

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-360v
Title: Targum ῾aravi le-Torah ve-ḥamesh megilot
Title: תרגום ערבי לתורה וחמש מגלות

Prefixed are fragments of haftarot, mostly to Genesis, in Arabic translation, folios 3r-7v.

The Pentateuch itself is preceded by an introduction in Hebrew and Arabic, beginning on folio 8r.

Folios 356-360 contain Megilat Antiochus in Hebrew, translated line by line into Arabic.

See Doron, [Sefunot] 18 (1985), pp. 279-298.

Colophon: כמל שרח אל כמסת גזא אלתורה ... אליום דא יום אל ארבעה עשרת אייאס פי שהר תמוז סנת כמסת אלאף ותלת מאיה ואחד ותלאתין סנה לאלכליקה פי אלקרית ... צפת שבגליל העליון תוב"ב ... אנא ... יששכר אבן ... החכם ... כה"ר מרדכי בן סוסאן זלה . f. 127v
Author: Susan, Issachar ben Mordecai (translator) סוסאן, יששכר בן מרדכי

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 360 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): 160 × 110 mm.
Foliation:

360 folios (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end, and the old leather binding).

Collation

Quires of mostly 6 to 8 leaves each.

Condition

Damp, with tidemarks across the leaves.

Usage stains, mould spotting.

Slight worming.

Losses at edges, all infilled before rebinding.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 33 35

Written lines: 33 35

Uniform layout.

Larger initial words and titles.

Leaf catchwords.

Running titles.

Marginal notes.

Erasures, e.g. folio 75v.

A strip of paper inserted between folio 75 and 76.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive script of the 16th century. Isakhar ben Mordekhai Susan: inscribed in the colophon, folio 127v (autograph).

Binding

Post-1600. Brown leather, blind tooled.

Spine: 'Pentateuch. Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental Ms. 14020A.'

History

Origin: 1571 Palestine (Safed)

Provenance and Acquisition

David Solomon Sassoon's bookplate pasted on upper inner cover.

῾Ag'ami ben Yosef ῾Ag'ami: inscribed, folio 127v.

Ya῾aḳov Boḳriyah: inscribed, folio 1r.

Purchased by the British Library in 1981. Previously in the Sassoon Collection, no. 159.

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_14020_A (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Sassoon, David S.Ohel Dawid. Descriptive Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the Sassoon Library, London. (London: Oxford University Press, 1932), 62-71.

Bibliography

    [Sefunot] מכון בן צבי (ירושלים). 'ספונות ספר שנה לחקר קהילות ישראל במזרח.'מכון בן צבי לחקר קהילות ישראל במזרח, 1957.

Funding of Cataloguing

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