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Or 2516

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Or 2516
Title:
Salmon ben Yeroḥam's commentary on Lamentations
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
198 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1747
End Date:
1747
Date Range:
1747
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CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
Salmon ben Jeroham, 0900-0999
Salmon ben Jeroham, 0900-0999
Ya῾akov Matsliyaḥ Leṿi
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Or 2516

Salmon ben Yeroḥam's commentary on Lamentations

Contents

A Judeo-Arabic commentary on Lamentations.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-198v
Title: Perush
Title: פרוש

An Arabic translation is given to each verse of the text.

The unpointed Hebrew text is embodied.

Author: Salmon ben Yeroḥam, active 10th century סלמון בן ירחם, קראי
Colophon: וכתב אותה הדל הנבזה ... אשר הוא ישאל מאלהיו כל ימי חייו ממצריים יעלהו ובירושלם ישכניהו ... יעקב מצליח לוי בן ... סעדיה לוי נ"ע בן ... אברהם הלוי נ"ע בן ... משה לוי נ"ע תהי נפשם צרורה בצרור החיים א'נ'ס'. וכאן אלפראג מנה יום אלאתנין חמשה עשר יום מחדש תמוז י'א'ל' שנת ה'ת'ק'ז' ליצירה ושלום על ישראל. f. 198r
ff. 1v-11v
Title: Introduction
ff. 11v-197v
Title: Commentary

The date of the composition is found on folio f. 113r : ועלי מא הו מעלום אן מנד גלות יכניה אלי חית אנתהינא אלף ותלת מאיה כמסה ותמאנין סנה ומנד כראב בית שני אלי חית אנתהינא ת'ת'פ'ח' סנה, i.e. 956 .

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 198 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 160 × 110 mm.
Dimensions (written): 120 × 85 mm.
Foliation:

198 folios (+2 paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end).

Collation

Quires of 5 folios each.

Catchwords on each verso.

Condition

Slightly stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 17

Written lines: 17

One column of written text of 17 lines a page.

Biblical verses are given in square characters.

Catchword on every verso.

Hand(s)

Oriental square and semi-cursive script, unpunctuated, of 18th century.

Additions:

Ya῾akov Matsliyaḥ Leṿi: inscribed, folio 198r.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Salmon ben Yerucham. Comm. on Lamentations. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2516.'

History

Origin: 1747

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 (ii)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_2516 (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. 252.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL