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Or 2477

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032-003375752
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Or 2477
Title:
Japheth ben Ali ha-Levi's Perush Ba-midbar
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
70 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2477 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1300-1399
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 2477

Japheth ben Ali ha-Levi's Perush Ba-midbar

Contents

A fragment of Judeo-Arabic commentary of Japheth ben Ali ha-Levi on Numbers (8:21-15:4).

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-70v
Title: Perush ba-midbar
Title: פרוש במדבר

Of the Hebrew text only the opening words of each verse are given, but a translation is added.

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

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 70 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 179 × 135 mm.
Dimensions (written): 158 × 102 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

7 quires (nos. 9-15) of 10 leaves each.

Quires signed with Hebrew letters in the right-hand upper corner of the first page.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 23

Written lines: 23

Uniform layout.

Hand(s)

Square Oriental script of 14th century.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine title: 'Yefet. Com. on Numbers. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2477.'

History

Origin: 1300-1399 14th century

Provenance and Acquisition

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.

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2477 (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. 270.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL