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Or 2470

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Or 2470
Title:
Japhet ben Ali ha-Levi's Perush Shemot
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
57 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1400-1599
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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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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Or 2470

Japhet ben Ali ha-Levi's Perush Shemot

Contents

A fragment of Judeo-Arabic commentary of Japheth ben Ali on Exodus 17:5-20:14.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-57v
Title: Perush Shemot
Title: פרוש שמות

An Arabic translation of the Hebrew text is embodied, the first translated verse being Ex. 17:7 (folio 1v).

Of the Hebrew text only the opening words of each verse are given.

Author: Japheth ben Ali, ha-Levi,‏ active 10th century יפת בן עלי, הלוי

Physical Description

Paper codex of approximately 15-16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 57 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 202 × 145 mm.
Dimensions (written): 174 × 110 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

6 quires (nos. 22-27), of mostly 10 leaves each.

Quires signed with Hebrew letters on the righ-hand upper corner of the first page.

Condition

The last quire is imperfect, the last three leaves having been lost.

Several folios have been damaged and later restored on modern paper.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 24

Written lines: 24

Visible pricking and ruling with a hard-point.

Hand(s)

Square to semi-cursive script of approximately 15-16th century.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Yefet Com. on Exodus. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2470.'

History

Origin: 1400-1599 15th-16th century

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: 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_2470 (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. 262.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL