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Or 2486

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Or 2486
Title:
Samuel ben Moses al-Maghribī's commentary on the Exodus
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
205 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2486 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1500-1599
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
al-Maghribi, Samuel ben Moses, 1400-1499
al-Maghribi, Samuel ben Moses, 1400-1499
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Or 2486

Samuel ben Moses al-Maghribī's commentary on the Exodus

Contents

The commentary on the book of Exodus (fragments).

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew

ff. 1r-205v
Title: Perush Shemot
Title: פירוש שמות
Author: Samuel ben Moses, al-Maghribī, active 15th century שמואל בן משה, המערבי

Part of an Arabic commentary on Exodus 6:12-19:7, composed in the form of questions and answers, i.e. she'elot u-teshuvot.

The words of the biblical text are introduced by the formula: ‘קאל אלנץ אלכרים’.

ff. 1r-51r
Title: Va-᾿era
ff. 51r-113r
Title: Bo
ff. 113r-192r
Title: Be-shalakh
ff. 192r-205v
Title: Yitro

Physical Description

Paper codex of 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 205 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 218 × 160 mm.
Dimensions (written): 150 × 105 mm.
Foliation:

205 folios (+ 2 paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

20 complete quires of 10 leaves each (nos. 8-27, folios 1-200) with fragments of 3 separate quires at the end (folios 201-205).

Signatures in Hebrew letters and Arabic numerals on the upper margin of the first pafe of a quire.

Condition

Several pages pages partially stained.

Lacunae after folios 201 and 203.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 21

Written lines: 21

A number of marginal notes.

Visible ruling with a mastara.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive script of 16th century.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine title: 'Samuel Ha-Rofe. Comm. On Exodus. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2486.'

History

Origin: 1500-1599 16th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 08 July 1882: 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.

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2486 (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. 321.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL