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Or 2478

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Or 2478
Title:
Japheth ben Ali ha-Levi's Perush devarim
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
92 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2478 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1600-1699
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 2478

Japheth ben Ali ha-Levi's Perush devarim

Contents

A fragment of Judeo-Arabic commentary of Japheth ben Ali ha-Levi on Deuteronomy 1:1-7:10.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-92v
Title: Perush devarim
Title: פרוש דברים

Concerns Deut. 1:1-7:10.

The unpointed text of Deut. 1:1-6:1 and 6:6-7:10 is embodied, followed by the Arabic translation.

Chapters 1:1-2:21, 3:24, 4:7, 29-30 are pointed, the rest is unpointed.

The volume has been collated.

Author: Japheth ben Ali, ha-Levi,‏ active 10th century יפת בן עלי, הלוי
Filiation: Cf. a similar handwriting of [BL] Or 2475 (Margoliouth, no. 271) and [BL] Or 2479 (Margoliouth, no. 275), the latter being dated 1603.

Physical Description

Paper codex of 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 92 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 206 × 148 mm.
Dimensions (written): 183 × 125 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

10 quires, of mostly 10 leaves each, apart from the first which has only 4 leaves.

Quires signed with Hebrew letters and Arabic words on the upper margin of the first page, and with Hebrew letters on the lower margin of the last page.

Condition

6th and 10th quire are imperfect; lacunae after folios 53 and 84.

Slightly water-damaged.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 23

Written lines: 23

The Hebrew biblical text is embodied.

Hand(s)

Square and semi-cursive script of 16th to 17th century.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Yefet Com. om Deuteronomy. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2478.'

History

Origin: 1600-1699 17th 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_2478 (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. 274.

Bibliography

    [BL] BL = British Library shelfmark

Funding of Cataloguing

BL