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Or 2567

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Or 2567
Title:
Karaite commentary
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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:
95 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2567 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Arabic
Hebrew
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Arabic
Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1300-1399
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CE
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Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2567

Karaite commentary

Contents

An Arabic commentary on the book of Proverbs.

Language(s): Arabic, Hebrew

ff. 1r-95v
Title: Commentary on Proverbs

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.

An anonymous Arabic commentary on Proverbs, chapters 1:22-8:34, 24:28-25:11.

The Hebrew text is quoted in part and written in square characters.

There is an Arabix translation arranged in the following sections: chapter 2; 3:1-18; 3:19-35; 4:1-19; 4:20-27; 5; 6:1-5; 6:6-11; 6:12-19; 6:20-35; 7; 8:1-21; 8:22-36; 25:1-13. The beginning of each section is marked by the word נץ in the margin.

Scant masoretic notes.

Filiation: Partially agrees with [BL] Or 2508 (Margoliouth, no. 338).

Physical Description

Paper codex of approximately 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 95 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 165 × 122 mm.
Dimensions (written): 145 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

10 quires, nos. 2-10, and folios 88-95, the numeration of which is uncertain.

Nos. 2, 10 and the last one are imperfect.

Signatures in Arabic words on the upper margin of the first folio, and the four following folios are numbered with Arabic numerals.

Condition

Imperfect at the beginning and at the end. Leaves missing after folios 8 and 87.

Folios 1, 2, 15, 53, 54, 62, 65, 71, 76, 79, 80, 88, 90, 91 are damaged.

Greater part of folio 87 is lost.

Many folios worm-eaten.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 15

Written lines: 15

Uniform layout.

Hand(s)

Hebrew square and Arabic Naskhi script of approximately 14th century.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine title: 'Comm. on Proverbs. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Or. 2567.'

History

Origin: 1300-1399 14th century

Provenance and Acquisition

1882-07-08

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.

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2567 (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. 337.

Bibliography

    [BL] BL = British Library shelfmark

Funding of Cataloguing

BL