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Or 2490

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Or 2490
Title:
Samuel ben Moses al-Maghribī's commentary on Numbers
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
142 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2490 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
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 2490

Samuel ben Moses al-Maghribī's commentary on Numbers

Contents

The commentary on the book of Numbers (fragments).

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew

ff. 1r-142v
Title: Perush Be-midbar
Title: פירוש במדבר
Author: Samuel ben Moses, al-Maghribī, active 15th century הרופא, שמואל בן משה המערבי

Part of an Arabic commentary on Numbers 1:1-49, 1:50-3:40, 4:21-5:24, 5:27-6:7, 6:26-7:1, 7:12-8:5, 8:7-9:17, 9:18-11:4, 11:6-12:6, 12:8-15:41, 16:1-18:2, 18:4-32.

In folios 71-134 the headings are written in red ink.

Several sections of muḳadimat included in the manuscript, cf. Or 2484,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. 396..

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th-17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 142 folios
Dimensions (leaf): × 135 mm.
Dimensions (written): 133 × 95 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Fragments of three different groups of quires, originally of 10 leaves each.

Signatures in Hebrew letters and Arabic numerals on the upper margin of the first page of a quire (partially preserved).

Imperfect at hte beginning and at the end, with lacunae throughout.

Condition

Several pages pages partially stained.

Lacunae after folios 7, 19, 29, 32, 33, 40, 50, 60, 70, 106, 134.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 23 26

Written lines: 23 26

Uniform layout.

Catchowords on every verso.

Hand(s)

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

ff. 1r-70v
,
ff. 71r-134v
,
ff. 135r-142v
- written in different but similar scripts.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine title: 'Samuel Ha-Rofe. Comm. On Numbers. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2490.'

History

Origin: 1500-1699 16th-17th 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_2490 (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. 325.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL