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Or 2415

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032-003375124
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Or 2415
Title:
Pentateuch and Former Prophets
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
215 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2415 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1300-1399
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Musa ibn Sulaiman ʻIraḳi
Nic. Mavrocordato
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2415

Pentateuch and Former Prophets

Contents

Pentateuch and the Former Prophets, provided with vowel-points and accents.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-215v
Title: Torah u-neviʼim rishonim
Title: תורה ונביאים ראשונים
Language(s): Hebrew

The masoretic notes are very scanty, being almost entirely confined to the מלא and חסר, and כתיב and קרי.

The two verses which are omitted in the printed text of the Bible after Joshua 21:35 are contained in this manuscript. with a marginal note: אלו שני הפסוקים אינם כתובים בהללי ולא בספר בבלי (written in the same hand as the owner's note on folio 2r).

ff. 1r-14v
Title: Genesis

Missing chapters 1:1-29:7 and 37:23-39:5.

ff. 14v-42r
Title: Exodus
ff. 42r-60r
Title: Leviticus
ff. 60r-86r
Title: Numbers
ff. 86r-108v
Title: Deuteronomy
ff. 108v-124v
Title: Joshua
ff. 124v-140r
Title: Judges
ff. 140r-178r
Title: Samuel

2Samuel starts on folio160v.

ff. 178r-215v
Title: Kings

Missing chapters 16:15-17:34 and 25:22-30.

2Kings starts on folio 198r.

Physical Description

Vellum codex of probably 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Extent: 215 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 198 × 152 mm.
Foliation:

215 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning of the manuscript, 1 after folio 5, 1 after folio 208 and 2 at the end of the manuscript).

The Hebrew foliation shows that the first extant leaf was originally the 17th.

Collation

27 extant quires mostly of 8 leaves, but the codex is missing 16 pages at the beginning and several pages throughout the manuscript.

Quires are marked with catchwords on the last page of the quire.

Condition

A number of leaves are missing, folios 41 and 115 are mutilated.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 25

Written lines: 25

Ruling with hard point, pricking is not currently visible.

Several lacunae.

The books of Leviticus (f. 42r) and Kings (f. 178r) begin a new leaf, and between the other books there is a blank of four lines.

Hand(s)

Sefardi semi-cursive script with superlinear punctuation, probably of the 14th century.

Decoration

1 half-border on f. 108v.

A one-column border, in colour on f. 108v.

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

History

Origin: 1300-1399 14th century Africa, N.?

Provenance and Acquisition

Marginal note of the owner on folio 122r.

Musa ibn Sulaiman ʻIraḳi, inscribed with his name on folio 2r, attesting that the manuscript is a property of ʻImrān: מוסי אבן סלימאן עראקי יצו' אן אלכתאב חק עמראן יצו.

Nic. Mavrocordato: purchased by the British Museum from him on 08 October 1881: 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_2415 (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. 77.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL