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Or 2489

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Or 2489
Title:
Perush Ṿa-yiḳra by Samuel ben Moses al-Maghribī
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
113 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1500-1699
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 2489

Perush Ṿa-yiḳra by Samuel ben Moses al-Maghribī

Contents

The commentary on the Book of Leviticus (fragments).

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew

ff. 1r-113v
Title: Perush Ṿa-yiḳra
Title: פירוש ויקרא
Author: Samuel ben Moses, al-Maghribī, active 15th century הרופא, שמואל בן משה המערבי

Part of an Arabic commentary on Leviticus 1:1-14, 3:16-4:2, 5:1-6:3, 7:6-15:33.

Incipit: ויקרא מסלה גואב הדא אלמצחף יחתוי עלי הפרשיות והם ויקרא צו שמיני תזריע מצורע מן תפסיר כ'ה'ר' שמואל רופא. f. 1r
Incipit: אלגזו אלאול מן שרח ספר ויקרא והי מסלה ואלגואב למר' ורב' שמואל הרופא תנצבה בן מר' ור' משה נ"ע. f. 2v

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th and 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 113 folios
Dimensions (leaf): × 135 mm.
Dimensions (written): 133 × 95 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

14 quires (nos. 1, 3-15) of mostly 10 leaves each.

Signatures in Hebrew letters and Arabic words on the upper margin of the first page of a quire.

Quires 1, 3, 5 are imperfect.

Condition

Several pages pages partially stained.

Water-damaged.

Lacunae after folios 9, 10, 20.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 24 25

Written lines: 24 25

Unform layout.

Catchwords on every verso.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive script of 16 and 17th century.

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine title: 'Samuel Ha-Rofe. Comm. On Leviticus. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2489.'

History

Origin: 1500-1699 15th-16th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Mosheh ben Yosef he-Ḥakham, owner: inscribed in a note, folio 113r.

1882-07-08

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.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2489 (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. 324.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL