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Or 2461

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032-003375136
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Or 2461
Title:
Judeo-Arabic commentary on Genesis
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
187 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2461 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
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Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
ha-Levi, Japheth ben Ali, 0900-0999
ha-Levi, Japheth ben Ali, 0900-0999
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2461

Judeo-Arabic commentary on Genesis

Contents

A Judeo-Arabic commentary on Genesis 1:1-6:8.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-187v
Title: Perush
Title: פרוש

The unpointed Hebrew text, accompanied by Yefet's Arabic translation, is embodied.

Author: Japheth ben Ali, ha-Levi, approximately 10th century יפת בן עלי, הלוי
Filiation: Written by the same hand as George Margoliouth, Catalogue , no. 267, no. 259, and no. 263.
Colophon: הדא אול מא אסתנסכה לנפסה מן שרח אלתורה יג' ויא' בכ'ט ידה אלפאניה במעונה אללה אלבאקיה אלעבד... עבד אלואחד אבן אלמרחום אלסדיד נצר אללה אבן אלמר' אלפכר מוסי אלמרוף באבן כאתב אלערב תנמדהם תע' באלרחמה ואלרצואן ויסכנהם אלגנאן אמן ושלום. f. 187r

Physical Description

Paper codex of the end of 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 187 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 180 × 135 mm.
Dimensions (written): 125 × 90 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Originally 26 quires of 10 leaves each, except the last, which has only 8 leaves. Quires 1 and 3-7 are not preserved and 2, 12, 15 are imperfect.

Quires signed with Hebrew letters and Arabic words on the upper margin of the first page.

Condition

Lacunae after folios: 4, 44, 52, 72, 80.

Heavily water-damaged.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 21

Written lines: 21

Biblical verses are given in square characters.

Hand(s)

Oriental square and semi-cursive script, unpunctuated, of 15th century.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Yefet. Com. on Genesis. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2461.'

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century

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: inscribed, 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.

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2461 (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. 256.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL