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Or 2585

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032-003375151
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Or 2585
Title:
Fragment of the Book of Leviticus
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
100 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2585 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1300-1399
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
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Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2585

Fragment of the Book of Leviticus

Contents

A small part of the books of Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy in Saʻadia Gaon's translation.

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-100v
Title: Torah
Title: תורה
Language(s): Judeo-Arabic

A small part of the books of Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy in Saʻadyah Gaon's translation.

ff. 1r-10v
Title: Leviticus

Containing chapters 17:3-18:27, 23:40 to the end.

ff. 10v-62v
Title: Numbers
ff. 62v-100v
Title: Deuteronomy

Containing chapters 1:1-29:5.

Physical Description

Paper codex of probably 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 100 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 190 × 145 mm.
Dimensions (written): 155 × 110 mm.
Foliation:

100 (+ 2 unfoliated flyleaves at the beginning and at the end of the manuscript).

Condition

The manuscript is imperfect at the beginning and at the end. There is also a lenghty lacuna after folio 2.

Many leaves are more or less damaged.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 19

Written lines: 19

Uniform layout.

Visible ruling, executed with mastara.

Hand(s)

Oriental square script, probably of 14th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

History

Origin: 1300-1399 14th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Musuem from him on 08 July 1882.

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_2585 (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. 114.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL