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Or 2479

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Or 2479
Title:
Japhet ben Ali ha-Levi's Perush devarim
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
159 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2479 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1602
End Date:
1602
Date Range:
1602
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Hebrew
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CE
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Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
Ya῾aḳov Ḥazan ben Yeshu῾ah Ḥazan
ha-Levi, Japheth ben Ali, 0900-0999
ha-Levi, Japheth ben Ali, 0900-0999
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Or 2479

Japhet ben Ali ha-Levi's Perush devarim

Contents

A fragment of Judeo-Arabic commentary of Japheth ben Ali on Deuteronomy 26-34.

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew

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

Concerns Deut. 26-34.

The pointed text of Deut. 26:2-29:5 and 29:9-34:12 is embodied, followed by the Arabic translation.

Folio 159v contains the genealogy of the scribe.

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 2478 (Margoliouth, no. 274).
Colophon: נשלם ב יום ראשון בשבוע ששה ימים מחדש שבט שנת ה"ש"ס"ג" וכתב הדל הנבזה שפל ורזה הצ' יעקב חזן ב'כ'ר' ישועה חזן נ"ע ושלום רב וישע יקרב א' f. 77r

Physical Description

Paper codex of 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 159 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): 170 × 115 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

16 quires, of mostly 10 leaves each, the 1st and the 5th having only 9 leaves, and the 8th quire - 11 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

The upper part of folio 1 is torn off.

Slightly water-damaged.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 21

Written lines: 21

The pointed Hebrew biblical text is embodied.

Hand(s)

Oriental square and semi-cursive script of the 17th century. Ya῾aḳov Ḥazan ben Yeshu῾ah Ḥazan: inscribed, folios 77r, 159v.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Yefet. Com. on Deuteronomy. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2479.'

History

Origin: 1602

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_2479 (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. 275.

Bibliography

    [BL] BL = British Library shelfmark

Funding of Cataloguing

BL