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Or 2401
Title:
Japheth ben Ali ha-Levi's Commentary on the Minor Prophets (books 5-12)
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Extent:
261 folios
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Start Date:
1688
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1688
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1688
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Names:
Barukh
Daniel ha-Rofe Firūz
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
Shemu᾿el ben Barukh
ha-Levi, Japheth ben Ali, 0900-0999
ha-Levi, Japheth ben Ali, 0900-0999
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Or 2401

Japheth ben Ali ha-Levi's Commentary on the Minor Prophets (books 5-12)

Contents

The commentary of Japheth ben Ali ha-Levi on the Minor Prophets (books 5-12).

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1v-261v
Title: Perush nevi᾿im aḥaronim
Title: פרוש נביאים אחרונים
Author: Japheth ben Ali, ha-Levi,‏ active 10th century יפת בן עלי, הלוי
Colophon: כמל שרח חגי ע"ה וכאן אלפרוג מנה יום אלאחד סתה פי חדש אדר ראשון סנה התמח לבריאת העולם וכתב אותו הע' הצ' מכל בני העיר שמואל מלמד בן כהר ברוך רופא יצו פי ארץ מצרים. f. 142v
Colophon: כמל שרח ספר תרי עשר בעזרת האל הגומל לחייבים טובות: ושלום וכאן אלפרוג מנה יום אלאחד עשרין פי חדש אדר ראשון סנה ה'ת'מ'ח' ליצירה אלמואפק לשהר רביע אלב' מן סנה אלף צ'ט' לישמעאל ושלום על ישראל וכתב ה'ה' הדל הנבזה [...] >ברוך רופא חזן סופר יצ"ו נין המנ' כמהר אלעזר חזן ידיע רופא נ"ע נן כ'ג'ק' מר' ור' אהרון הרופא נ"ע בן כ'ג'ק' מר' ור' יהודה הדין נ"ע בן כ'ג'ק' מר' ור' יוסף נ"ע הנודעים בביתה עמרם נ"ע ת'נ'צ'ב'ה' אמן אמן. f. 261r

The unpointed Hebrew text with an Arabic translation is embodied.

ff. 1v-20r
Title: Jonah
ff. 20r-62r
Title: Micah
ff. 62r-78v
Title: Nahum
ff. 78v-103r
Title: Habakkuk
ff. 103r-128r
Title: Zephaniah
ff. 128r-143v
Title: Haggai
ff. 143v-234r
Title: Zechariah
ff. 234r-261v
Title: Malachi

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 261 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 192 × 140 mm.
Dimensions (written): 167 × 105 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

Signatures in Hebrew letters on the righ-hand upper corner of the first page, now partially lost.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 19

Written lines: 19

Uniform layout.

Biblical verses provided with vowel-points.

Some notes supplied in the margins.

Catchwords on every verso.

Hand(s)

Oriental square and semi-cursive script of the 17th century. Shemu᾿el ben Barukh, the scribe of folios 1-142: inscribed in the colophon, folio f. 142v , with a date of 5448 (1099, 1688) and Barukh, the scribe of folios 143-261, inscribed in the colophon, folio f. 261r , with a date of 5448 (1688).

ff. 143r-261r
- due to a different contemporary hand.

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Japhet ben Eli. Comm. on Minor Prophets. Vol. II. Arabic - Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2401.'

History

Origin: 1688 Egypt (Cairo?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Daniel ha-Rofe Firūz: inscribed, folio f. 143r 1689.

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 23 July 1881, 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_2401 (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. 288.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL