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Or 2541

Record Id:
032-003375143
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Or 2541
Title:
Pentateuch
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
98 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2541 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Arabic
Hebrew
Scripts:
Arabic
Hebrew
Start Date:
0900
End Date:
0999
Date Range:
0900-0999
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2541

Pentateuch

Contents

Fragments of the Pentateuch written in Arabic characters.

Language(s): Hebrew, Arabic

ff. 1r-98v
Title: Torah
Title: תורה

The system of transcription from Hebrew into Arabic characters is literal.

The text is written in Arabic characters, but provided with the ordinary Hebrew vowel-points and accents.

ff. 1r-9r
Title: Genesis

Only Gen. 30:35-32:30

ff. 9r-98v
Title: Exodus

Only Ex. 5:14-7:5; 11:2-18:14; 18:24-22:15; 23:1-40:34.

Physical Description

Paper codex of 10th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 98 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 193 × 133 mm.
Foliation:

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

Condition

The black ink in the fragment of Genesis is nearly entirely faded.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 13

Written lines: 13

Uniform layout.

Extant beginnings of weekly sections marked by فرس' in the margin.

The number of verses of the preceding weekly section marked by Arabic letters.

The beginnings of sedarim marked in the margin.

Punctuation provided in red ink.

Hand(s)

Naskhi hand of 10th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

History

Origin: 0900-0999 Approximately 10th century Iraq or Iran

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 8 July 1882: inscribed, back flyleaf (i)v.

1882-07-08

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_2541 (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. 103.
    [Hoerning_1889] X-XI

Bibliography

    [Hoerning_1889] Reinhart Hoerning. 'British Museum Karaite Mss. : Descriptions and Collation of Six Karaite Manuscripts of Portions of the Hebrew Bible in Arabic Characters ; with a Complete Reproduction by the Autotype Process of One, Exodus I, 1-VIII, 5 in 42 Facsimiles / Reinhart Hoerning.'London: Williams and Norgate, 1889.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL