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Or 2210

Record Id:
032-003375109
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Or 2210
Title:
Prophets
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
194 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2210 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1468
End Date:
1468
Date Range:
1468
Calendar:
Seleucid
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Avraham ben Yosef
Benayah [ben Sa'adyah ben Zekharyah ben Margaz]
Ibrahim ibn Yusuf
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2210

Prophets

Contents

Former Prophets, accentuated and punctuated, with Targum, masorah magna and parva.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-194v
Title: Nevi'im
Title: נביאים
Colophon: נבצע בירחמרחשון שנת אתש"ף לשטרייהא סימן טוב על מריה אברהם ש"צ ברב יוסף רי"ת אלהים יזכיהו להגות בו ולדקדק בעניניו ולהבין מצפוניו מעתה ועד עולם הוא וזרעו וזרע זרעו אנס"ו ויתקיים עליו מקרא שכתוב יברכך ה' וישמרך יאר ה' פניו אל' ישא ה' פניו אל' וג' אלה ימחול לי על כל מה ששגיתי וטעיתי ונסתר מעיני כדכתיב שגיאות מי יבין מנסתרות נקיני אנ"ס ישע יקרב ששון יערב. f. 193v
ff. 1r-28r
Title: Joshua
ff. 28r-55v
Title: Judges
ff. 55v-121v
Title: Samuel
ff. 121v-193v
Title: Kings

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 194 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 420 × 280 mm.
Dimensions (written): 414 × 218 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

20 quires of 10 leaves each, apart from the following: i8, xv9, xvii9, and xx8.

The quires are signed with Hebrew letters on the first page and marked with catchwords on the last page.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 26

Written lines: 26

Uniform layout.

Masorah magna in generally one line in the lower margin and occasionaly one line in the upper margin of the page.

The beginning and the end of the Haftarot marked in the margin.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square script of the 15th century, punctuated. Benayah [ben Sa'adyah ben Zekharyah ben Margaz], for manuscripts of the same scribe see Or 2211, 2348, 2370, 2375.

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

History

Origin: 1468 Yemen (Sanaʿa)

Provenance and Acquisition

Avraham ben Yosef: inscribed with his name in the colophon, folio 193v.

A birth record of the son of Ibrahim ibn Yusuf, inscribed on folio 193v, with a date of Adar1781 (1470).

A purchase note in Judeo-Arabic, folio 194v.

1879-12-13

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 13 December 1879, inscribed [195v].

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_2210 (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. 128.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL