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Or 2230

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Or 2230
Title:
Pentateuch with commentary and Arabic translation
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
110 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2230 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Judeo-Arabic
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1655
End Date:
1655
Date Range:
1655
Calendar:
Seleucid
Era:
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 2230

Pentateuch with commentary and 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, Aramaic, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1v-110v
Title: Torah ʿim targum u-ferush Rash"i
Title: תורה עם תרגום ופרוש רש"י
Author: Rashi שלמה בן יצחק (רש"י)

Third of the three uniform volumes of the Pentateuch, containing the book of Deuteronomy.

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

Explicit: על תיקון הספר שהיה במצרים שהגיהו בן אשר ודקדקו בו שנים רבות כמו שהעתיקו. f. 110v
Filiation: Cf. [BL] Or 2228 and [BL] Or 2229, (Margoliouth, Catalogue, no. 183) for volume one and two of this commentary.
Colophon: והכותב יוסף בן סעדיא בן יוסף הידוע אלאבהר השסב"ה מחולל על כל מה ששגיתי וטעיתי [...] והנני מפיל תחנתי לכל מי שיקרא בזה שיתקנה וידון אותי לכף זכות לפי שלא כתבתיה אלא ואני דחוק בתלאות הזמן ובגלות מעיר לעיר. f. 110v

Physical Description

Paper codex of 17th century
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 110 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 302 × 198 mm.
Dimensions (written): 235 × 145 mm.
Foliation:

110 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).

Uniform layout.

The beginnings of the weekly sections marked by small pen and ink designs in the margins, other liturgical indications 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 Deuteronomy there are an additional masoretic rubrics.

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 110v and in volume 1, Or 2228, folio 300v.

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

History

Origin: 1655 Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Se῾adya ben Daṿid: inscribed, folio 110v.

Ḥayim ibn Yaḥya al-Ṭiri: inscribed with his name in volume 1, Or 2228,  folio 1r.

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

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_2230 (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

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

Funding of Cataloguing

BL