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Or 2543

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Or 2543
Title:
Biblical fragments
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
119 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2543 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Arabic
Hebrew
Scripts:
Arabic
Hebrew
Start Date:
0900
End Date:
1199
Date Range:
0900-1199
Calendar:
Seleucid
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 2543

Biblical fragments

Contents

Four Biblical fragments containing Hebrew text in phonetic Arabic transcription.

Language(s): Hebrew, Arabic

ff. 1r-119v
Title: Tana"kh
Title: תנ"ך
ff. 1r-102v
Title: Jeremiah

Contains chapters: 23:22-25:10; 25:32-36:27; 36:32-38:24; 39:7-49:37.

10 lines to a page.

The extant first leaves are marked by Arabic numerals on the left-hand upper corner.

The vowel-points and accents are supplied in red ink.

ff. 103r-109v
Title: Genesis

Contains chapters: 22:1-24:6.

Eight to nine lines a page.

No accents nor punctuation.

ff. 110r-115v

Contains chapters: 25:53-27:6.

From 10 to 12 lines a page.

Hebrew vowel-points and accents.

Title: Leviticus
ff. 116r-119v
Title: Ezekiel

Contains chapters: 21:33-22:12; 27:7-23.

From 9 to 11 lines a page.

Hebrew vowel-points.

Physical Description

Papercodex; different Naskhi hands of the 10th to 12th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 119 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 184 × 114 mm.
Foliation:

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

Condition

Consists of four parts of originally different codices.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 8 12

Written lines: 8 12

Uniform layout.

Hand(s)

Four Naskhi hands of approximately 10th to 12th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

History

Origin: 0900-1199 10th-12th century Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

1882-07-08

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 08 July 1882, folio [122v].

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_2543 (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. 134.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL