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Or 2460

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Or 2460
Title:
Judeo Persian biblical commentary
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
33 folios
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Languages:
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Judeo-Persian
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1500-1599
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CE
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Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
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Or 2460

Judeo Persian biblical commentary

Contents

Fragment of a Judeo-Persian commentary on portions of the Prophets.

Language(s): Judeo-Persian, Hebrew

ff. 1r-33v
Title: Perush ha-nevi᾿im
Title: פרוש הנביאים

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).

Filiation: The direct continuation of this manuscript is NLR Yevr.-Arab. I 4609 and NLR Yevr.-Arab. I 4607, f. 2.
ff. 1r-3r
Title: Commentary on Jer. 1:4-19

ff. 3r-10r
Title: Historical narrative concerning the kingdom of Judah

F. 3r: סר אבדישת ישראלן.

ff. 10r-10v
Title: A few accounts concerning the siege of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Second Temple

F. 10r: אני כאנה דויום אניז בד תר.

ff. 10v-17r
Title: Commentary on Jer. 2:4-36

F. 10v: תפסיר שמעו.

ff. 17r-17v
Title: Miscellanea

ff. 17v-21v
Title: Commentary on Is. 57:14-58:14

F. 17v: ענין כפור: ואמר סלו סלו.

ff. 21v-24r
Title: Commentary on Is. 60:1-6

F. 21v: תפסיר קומי אורי.

ff. 24r-28v
Title: Commentary on Is. 60

F. 24r: תפסיר ענין קומי אורי.

ff. 28v-30r
Title: Discussion of evil speech

F. 28v: סיפור גמול לשון הרע.

ff. 30r-33v
Title: Commentary on Is. 61-62

F. 30r: תפסיר ענין רוח יי אלהים עלי.

f. 33v
Title: The beginning of a commentary on 2Sam. 6

F. 33v: תפסיר ענין ויוסף עוד דויד.

Physical Description

Paper codex of 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 33 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 305 × 203 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Indeterminable.

Condition

Many folios are considerably trimmed, stuck to modern paperleaves.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 34 45

Written lines: 34 45

Pages are of various size and provenance, many of them considerably trimmed in the margins.

Hand(s)

Oriental (Persian) semi-cursive script, unpunctuated, of 16th century.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Com. on Hafṭaroth. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2460.'

History

Origin: 1500-1599 16th century Iran?

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 08 July 1882, 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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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. 246.
    Meredith-Owens, G. M., Handlist of Persian Manuscripts 1895-1966 (London: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1968), p. 42.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL