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Or 2481

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Or 2481
Title:
Pentateuch with Arabic translation
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
281 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1800
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1800-1899
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
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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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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2481

Pentateuch with Arabic translation

Contents

An Arabic translation of the Pentateuch based mainly on that of Japheth ben Ali, ha-Levi.

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew

ff. 1r-281v
Title: An Arabic translation of the Pentateuch based mainly on that of Japheth ben Ali ha-Levi.
Author: Japheth ben Ali, ha-Levi, active 10th century יפת בן עלי, הלוי

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

ff. 1r-73v
Title: Genesis
ff. 73v-134v
Title: Exodus
ff. 134v-177v
Title: Leviticus
ff. 177v-231v
Title: Numbers
ff. 231v-281v
Title: Deuteronomy

Physical Description

Paper codex of 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 281 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 190 × 124 mm.
Foliation:

281 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end of the codex).

Collation

Quires of 10 leaves each.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 18

Written lines: 18

Uniform layout.

Running title and catchwords on every page.

Hand(s)

Semi-cursive script of the 19th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

History

Origin: 1800-1899 19th 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 (ii)v.

1882-07-08

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_2481 (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. 101.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL