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Or 4839

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Or 4839
Title:
Pentateuch
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
189 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_4839 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1747
End Date:
1747
Date Range:
1747
Calendar:
Hebrew
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Rashi, 1040-1105
Rashi, 1040-1105
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 4839

Pentateuch

Contents

Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy with Rashi's commentary,Targum and Sa῾adia's Arabic translation.

Language(s): Hebrew, Jewish Babalonia Aramaic, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1v-189v
Title: Torah ʿim targum u-ferush Rash"i
Title: תורה עם תרגום ופרוש רש"י
Author: Rashi, 1040-1105 שלמה בן יצחק (רש"י), 1040-1105

Contains Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.

Various marginal notes.

Filiation: The second of the uniform volumes, the first being [BL] Or 4838 (Margoliouth, no. 184).
Colophon: נשלמה זאת התורה התמימה נזר ועטרה [...] היום יום שלישי לחדש תשרי שהיא יום חמישי בסדר וילך משה שנת תרין אלפין וחמשין ותשע שנין לשטרות שהוא שנת ה'ת'ק'ח' ליצירה תהא שנה זו סוף וקץ לכל צרה [...] הצעיר יחיה בן אדוני אבי משה בן שלו' בן יחיה הידוע אלקראטה וכו' f. 189v
ff. 2r-58r
Title: Leviticus
Incipit: בשם רחמן מלא רחמים בשם אשר לו הגבורה אתחיל לכתוב ספר ויקרא. עם פרוש שלשה עמודי עולם אשר בכל בתי מדרשות נשמע קול פלפולם זכותם תעמוד לי ולכל ישראל כולם והנני מתחיל לעשות כאשר יעזרני ויי יהיה בעזרי אכיר. f. 2r
ff. 58v-125v
Title: Numbers
ff. 126r-188r
Title: Deuteronomy
ff. 188v-189v
Title: Miscellanea

Masoretic notes and some biblical verses with a Judeo-Arabic translation, followed by Ps. 29 with an Aramaic translation, the genealogy of Moses and several Scripture verses.

"וכשמשלימין לקרות הפרשה ביום שבת אומרין זה הנוסח שמדבר בשבח התורה ובמעלת משה רבינו עליו השלום: צדקתך צדק לעולם ותורתך אמת: משה אמת ותורתו אמת וכו": f. 189r "

Physical Description

Paper codex of 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 189 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 480 × 210 mm.
Dimensions (written): 270 × 175 mm.
Foliation:

189 folios (+1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and at the end).

Condition

Several pages severely stained or damaged. Some restoration has beed done, patching damaged folios with modern paper.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 24 35

Written lines: 24 35

Rashi's commentary is written below the main text of the Pentateuch.

The commentary has catchwords on each folio.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square and semi-cursive script of 18th century.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

History

Origin: 1747 Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Heller & Weiss: purchased by the British Library from him on 14 November 1894: 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_4839 (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. 185.

Bibliography

    [BL] BL = British Library shelfmark

Funding of Cataloguing

BL