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Or 2462

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Or 2462
Title:
Japhet ben Ali ha-Levi's commentary on Genesis
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
224 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2462 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1500-1699
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
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Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
Shemu᾿el
ha-Levi, Japheth ben Ali, 0900-0999
ha-Levi, Japheth ben Ali, 0900-0999
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2462

Japhet ben Ali ha-Levi's commentary on Genesis

Contents

A Judeo-Arabic commentary on Genesis 1:1-18:15..

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-224v
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

f. 120r, 164v a pen and ink design enclosing the parashah sign.

f. 217v an ornamental design in colours.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the end of 16-17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 224 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 217 × 149 mm.
Dimensions (written): 167 × 105 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

23 quires of 10 leaves each, with quires 1-3, 5, 17 and 23 imperfect.

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

Condition

Lacunae after folios: 1, 2, 11, 18, 29, 165, 224.

Visible marks of water-damage.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 21

Written lines: 21

Biblical verses are given in square characters.

Catchwords on every verso.

Hand(s)

Oriental square and semi-cursive script, unpunctuated, of the 16-17th century. Shemu᾿el: inscribed at the beginning of lines on folio 200v, 221v, 222v.

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Yefet. Commentary on Genesis. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2462.'

History

Origin: 1500-1699 16th-17th century

Provenance and Acquisition

An owner's note, folio 1r.

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 (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_2462 (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. 255.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL