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Or 2228

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Or 2228
Title:
Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary and Sa῾adia Gaon's Arabic translation
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Oriental Manuscripts
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300 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Judeo-Arabic
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Start Date:
1655
End Date:
1655
Date Range:
1655
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Seleucid
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CE
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Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
Rashi, 1040-1105
Rashi, 1040-1105
Se῾adya ben Daṿid
Yosef ben Se῾adya ben Yosef ben Daṿid
Ḥayim ibn Yaḥya al-Ṭiri
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Or 2228

Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary and Sa῾adia Gaon's Arabic translation

Contents

Summary of Contents: Pentateuch with punctuation and accents, Rashi's commentary,Targum with simple superlinear punctuation and Sa῾adia Gaon's Arabic translation.

Language(s): Hebrew, Jewish Babalonia Aramaic, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-300v
Title: Torah ʿim targum u-ferush Rash"i
Title: תורה עם תרגום ופרוש רש"י
Author: Rashi שלמה בן יצחק (רש"י)

First of the three uniform volumes of the Pentateuch, containing the books of Genesis and Exodus.

Maḥberet al-tigan is prefixed to this volume.

The Pentateuch is accompanied by the pointed Targum, Rashi's commentary and Sa῾adia Gaon's Arabic translation.

Colophon: ספרא חאלשא ומסכינא יוסף בן סעדיא בן יוסף בן דוד הידוע אלאבהר השם יזכינו על מה ששניתי וכו' והנני מפיל תחנתי לכל מי שיקרא בה שאם בא ומצא טעות שיתקנה וידון אותי לכף זכות לפי שלא כתבתיה אלא ואני דחוק בתלאות הזמן ובגלות מעיר לעיר ואין שם קורת רוח מן הטלטול והדון לכף זכות מן השמים ידינהו לכף זכות. ונשלמה בחסד האל וברחמיו יום חמישי כ"ו במרחשון אתתקסו לשטרות במאתא אלטארא מן ואדי קמא דעל בירא דמייא סוידה מותבה תהא שנה זו סוף וקץ לכל הצרות וכו' ונכתבה כל שם החבר הטוב הדומה לעץ טוב סעדיא בן דוד הידוע מרחב יזכה להגות בה וכו' . f. 300v
Filiation: For volumes two and three of this commentary, see Or 2229-2230 (Margoliouth, Catalogue, no. 183).
ff. 1v-28v
Title: Maḥberet al-tigan
ff. 28v-178v
Title: Genesis
ff. 178v-300v
Title: Exodus

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 300 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 302 × 198 mm.
Dimensions (written): 235 × 145 mm.
Foliation:

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

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 25 40

Written lines: 25 40

Watermarks on folio 2 and back flyleaf (i). The first watermark is a hand, the second watermark is a vase with a crescent at the top and a monogramm (CO?), similar to [Heawood_1950] 3603 (dated to 1646, England).

The beginnings of the weekly sections are marked by small pen and ink designs in the margins, other liturgical indications are marked with Hebrew letters.

At the end of the weekly sections are the masoretic statements relating to the number of verses and simanim.

At the end of Genesis there is an additional masoretic rubric.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square and semi-cursive script of 17th century, partially punctuated and accentuated. Yosef ben Se῾adya ben Yosef ben Daṿid: inscribed in the colophon, folio 300v and in volume 3, Or 2230, folio 110v.

Additions:

Folio 1r is a doodle page.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

History

Origin: 1655 Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Se῾adya ben Daṿid: inscribed, folio 300v.

Ḥayim ibn Yaḥya al-Ṭiri: inscribed with his name, folio 1r.

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 10 April 1880: 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_2228 (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. 183.

Bibliography

    [Heawood_1950] Edward Heawood. 'Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries. [With a Portrait.]'. Hilversum: Paper Publications Society, 1950.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL