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Or 2459

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032-003375134
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Or 2459
Title:
Judeo-Persian commentaries (fragments)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
Folios 1-123
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2459 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Persian
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1000
End Date:
1199
Date Range:
1000-1199
Era:
CE
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Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2459

Judeo-Persian commentaries (fragments)

Contents

Fragments of Judeo-Persian commentaries on verses from the Pentateuch and some other biblical books.

Language(s): Hebrew, Persian

ff. 1r-123v
Title: Perushim
Title: פרושים

Based on their content and linguistic and paleographic features, these manuscripts are datable to the 11th-12th centuries, and not to the 16th century or later as suggested by Margoliouth (information provided by Ofir Haim).

So far, it has not been possible to determine the identity of the authors of these manuscripts and/or the place of their composition or copying. However, it is quite possible to assume that the authors were Karaite since Hebrew Karaite terms (e.g. רועי גלות, משכילים etc.) are attested in these texts. Another interesting feature of these texts is their affinity to the commentaries of the Karaite Yefet ben 'Eli. (Information provided by Ofir Haim).

ff. 1r-32v
Title: Commentary on Num. 8:12-12:16
ff. 33r-63r
Title: Commentary on Hosea 2

Ff. 62r-63r are written by a different hand; mostly vocalized.

f. 64r
Title: Elegy

ff. 64v-70r
Title: Introduction to the commentary on Proverbs

F. 64v: בשם יי אתחיל לכתוב ספר משלי.

ff. 70v-71r
Title: Glossary of difficult words from the first weekly portion of Genesis

Judeo-Persian text vocalized.

ff. 72v-75r
Title: Sermon(?) on Is. 40:1

F. 72v: בשם 'י פתרון נחמו ינחם יי בנחמת ציון וירושלם עם צדיקים למפתירו.

ff. 75v-80r
Title: Sermon(?) on the Ten Commandments

Judeo-Persian text vocalized.

ff. 80v-123v
Title: Sermon(?) on Is. 40:1

F. 80v: תפסיר ואלה שמות.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 11th-12th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: Folios 1-123
Dimensions (leaf): 178 × 153 mm.
Foliation:

123 folios (+ 2 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Indeterminable.

Condition

All the pages considerably damaged and/or trimmed in the margins, stuck on modern paper leaves.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 13 23

Written lines: 13 23

Pages are of different size, considerably damaged and/or trimmed in the margins.

Hand(s)

Oriental (Persian) semi-cursive script, of the 11th-12th century.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Commentary on Numbers, etc. Persian. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2459.'

History

Origin: 1000-1199 11th-12th century Iran?

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 08 July 1882, 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.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2459 (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. 245.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL