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Or 2493

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Or 2493
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Karaite commentary
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Extent:
87 folios
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Languages:
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Judeo-Arabic
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1300
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1399
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1300-1399
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Names:
Abu al-Faraj Furḳan ibn ʾAsad
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
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Or 2493

Karaite commentary

Contents

Fragments of Arabic translation and commentaries on the book of Exodus.

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew

ff. 1r-87v
Title: Exodus

Contains Exodus 13:17-15:1, 15:22-17:7, 18:1-21:36, 22:4-30:21, 30:33-32:29, 33:12-34:26. Pointed and accentuated Hebrew text, with a translation and short commentary in (Judeo-)Arabic.

The Hebrew text is arranged into the following sections (corresponding to parashiyot petuhot u-setumot): chapters 13:17-22; 14:1-14; 14:15-25, 26-31; 15:1; 15:22-26; 15:27-16:3; 16:4-10; 16:11-27, 28-36; 17:1-4, 5-7; 18:1-12, 13-27; 19:1-25; 20:1, 2-6, 7, 8-11, 12, 13-17, 18-21, 22-26; 21:1-6, 7-11, 12-13, 14, 15-17, 18-19, 20-21, 22-25, 26-27, 28-32, 33-34, 35-36; 22:4, 5, 6-8, 9-12, 13-14, 15-16, 17, 18, 19-23, 24-26, 27-30; 23:1-3, 4, 5, 6-9, 10-19, 20-25, 26-33; 24:1-11, 12-18; 25:1-9, 10-16, 17-22, 23-30, 31-40; 26:1-6, 7-14, 15-30 (verse 22 added in the margin); 31-37; 27:1-8, 9-19, 21-21; 28:1-5, 6-12, 13-14, 15-17, 18-29, 30, 31-35, 36-43; 29:11-37, 38-46; 30:1-10, 11-16, 17-21, 33b, 34-38; 31:1-11, 12-17; 31:18-32:6; 32:7-14, 15-29; 33:12-16, 17-23; 34:1-10, 11-26.

Each of the above sections is followed by the corresponding portion of the translation and commentary, both of which are distinguished from the text by smaller writing.

The end of a section is marked by a standard blessing formula.

The number of verses in each weekly parashah is registered at the end.

Some scant masoretic notes, including the marking of 'ketiv', are included.

Quotes several Karaite grammarians and other authorities, e.g. ʻAli ibn Sulaiman, Abu lʻFaraj Furkan, Abu ʻAli, David ben Boʻaz.

Filiation: The translation is often in agreement with the corresponding portions in London, British Library, Or 2545 by Abu al-Faraj Furḳan ibn ʾAsad.

f. 1v, 16v, 28v, 45r, 57v, 71r Numerous decorated panels inserted into the body of the text, in colours and gold, at the end of each weekly parashah.

Physical Description

Paper codex of approximately 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 87 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 209 × 140 mm.
Dimensions (written): 165 × 95 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

10 quires, nos. 6-15, of 10 leaves each.

Quires nos. 6, 7, 9, 13-15 are imperfect.

Quires nos. 8-15 signed with Hebrew letters on the upper (inner) margin of the first page.

Condition

Some leaves damaged.

Gaps after folios: 7, 15, 33, 72, 81.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 15 32

Written lines: 15 32

Uniform layout.

Visible hard-point ruling.

Hand(s)

Oriental square and semi-cursive script, partially punctuated, of approximately 14th century.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine title: 'Exodus with Comm. Hebrew & Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2493.'

History

Origin: 1300-1399 14th century Persia, Babylonia or Egypt

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a 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_2493 (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. 332.

Bibliography

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Funding of Cataloguing

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