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Or 14020 B

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032-003314167
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Or 14020 B
Title:
Arabic translation of Hagiographa
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
109 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_14020_B (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1573
End Date:
1574
Date Range:
1573-1574
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Hebrew
Era:
CE
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Names:
Isakhar ben Mordekhai Susan
Shelomoh Kohen
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
Yeḥezkel Avraham Nissim
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 14020 B

Arabic translation of Hagiographa

Contents

An Arabic translation of Hagiographa.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-160v
Title: Tirgum ῾aravi li-khetuvim
Title: תרגום ערבי לכתובים

Contains the Arabic translation of Psalms (missing chapters 1-5), Proverbs (missing chapters 31-end), Job, Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah, and Chronicles.

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

Colophon: כמל [...] סנת השל"ד [...] פי אלקריה [...] צפת. f. 108v
Author: Susan, Issachar ben Mordecai (translator) סוסאן, יששכר בן מרדכי

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 109 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): 160 × 110 mm.
Foliation:

109 folios (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

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: 32

Written lines: 32

Uniform layout.

Larger initial words and titles.

Catchwords on every verso.

Running titles.

Marginal notes and additions.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive script of the 16th century. Isakhar ben Mordekhai Susan: inscribed in the colophon, folio 127v of Or 14020A (autograph).

Binding

Post-1600. Brown leather, blind tooled.

Spine: 'Psalms, Etc. Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental Ms. 14020B.'

History

Origin: 1573-1574 Palestine (Safed)

Provenance and Acquisition

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

Yeḥezkel Avraham Nissim: inscribed, folio 1v.

Shelomoh Kohen: inscribed, folio 109v.

Ya῾aḳov Boḳriyah: inscribed, folio 109v.

Purchased by the British Library in 1981. Previously in the Sassoon Collection, no. 160.

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_B (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

Bibliography

    [Sefunot] מכון בן צבי (ירושלים). 'ספונות ספר שנה לחקר קהילות ישראל במזרח.'מכון בן צבי לחקר קהילות ישראל במזרח, 1957.
    [Sassoon_1932] David Solomon SASSOON. 'Ohel Dawid. Descriptive Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the Sassoon Library, London. Compiled by D. S. Sassoon ... With Seventy-Three Facsimiles.'London: Oxford University Press, 1932.

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