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Or 2416
Title:
Collection of biblical commentaries
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
137 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2416 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1650
End Date:
1651
Date Range:
1650-1651
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Seleucid
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CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
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Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Jacob ben Asher, 1269-1340
Jacob ben Asher, 1269-1340
Nic. Mavrocordato
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2416

Collection of biblical commentaries

Contents

A collection of commentaries on the biblical passages by various authors.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-105r
Title: Perush ha-Torah
Title: פרוש התורה
Author: Jacob ben Asher יעקב בן אשר
Incipit: העולם בידך העולם והשבת: f. 1r
Colophon: נשלם זה המדרש [...] בתלתא בשבא י"ב לירח כסליו שנת א'ת'ת'ק'ס'ב' ליצירה [...] והכותב הקל והצעיר דוד בן יוסף בן שמעון אלכלפי [...] f. 105r

Genesis: folios 1r-20v.

Exodus: folios 20v-50v.

Leviticus: folios 50v-65r.

Numbers: folios 65r-84v.

Deuteronomy: folios 84v-105r.

References

[Ben_Asher_1514]
ff. 106r-137v
Title: Midrash on Esther
Title: אגדת אסתר
Filiation: [Steinschneider_1879] 149in volume 2.

A small portion is missing at the end.

References

[Buber_1925]

Physical Description

Paper codex of approximately 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 137 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 212 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): 175 × 115 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

Catchwords on every verso.

Condition

Partially damaged.

Defective at the beginning and at the end. Two leaves are missing after folio 2 and one after folio 18.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 23 25

Written lines: 23 25

Uniform layout.

Ruled with mastara.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive script, unpunctuated.

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

History

Origin: 1650-1651

Provenance and Acquisition

A notice of birth, dated 1741, folio 106r.

1881-10-08

Mr Nic. Mavrocordato: purchased by the British Museum from him on 8 October 1881, folio [138v].

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_2416 (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. 224.

Bibliography

    [Ben_Asher_1514] Jacob ben Asher. 'Perush Ha-Torah'. [Constantinople : S. Nachmias, 1514.
    [Steinschneider_1879] Königliche Bibliothek zu Berlin. 'Die Handschriften-Verzeichnisse Der K̈oniglichen Bibliothek Zu Berlin. Bd. 2, Verzeichniss Der Hebræischen Handschriften / von Moritz Steinschneider.'Berlin: Buchdruckerei der KAkademie der Wissenschaften-1897, 1879.
    [Buber_1925] Buber, Salomon, and Judah Behak. 'ʼAgadat ʼEster : ʻal Pi Ketav Yad Mi-Teman'. Wilno : [s.n.], 1925.

Funding of Cataloguing

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