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Or 2492

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032-003376082
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Or 2492
Title:
Yaʻqūb ibn Isḥāq Qirqisānī's commentary on Genesis
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
75 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2492 (digital images currently unavailable)
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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:
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Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
Qirqisānī, Yaʻqūb ibn Isḥāq, 0900-0999
Qirqisānī, Yaʻqūb ibn Isḥāq, 0900-0999
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2492

Yaʻqūb ibn Isḥāq Qirqisānī's commentary on Genesis

Contents

A Judeo-Arabic commentary on Genesis.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-75v
Title: Perush
Title: פרוש

Contains two portions of the commentary: an abridgement of the fuller commentary on the first weekly section and a fragment of a fuller commentary on the second weekly section.

Author: Qirqisānī, Yaʻqūb ibn Isḥāq,‏ active 10th century אלקרקסאני, אבו יוסף יעקוב
ff. 1r-54v
Title: A commentary on the first weekly portion

Only a fragment of the commentary is preserved.

ff. 55r-75r
Title: A commentary on the second weekly portion

Only a fragment of the commentary is preserved.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 75 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 170 × 117 mm.
Dimensions (written): 142 × 91 mm.
Foliation:

75 folios (+ 2 paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each (the first and the last are irregular).

Condition

Slightly stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 24

Written lines: 24

Ruled with mastara.

Running titles and catchwords on every verso and recto.

Original paginiation with Hebrew letters.

Catchword on every verso.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive script, unpunctuated, of 19th century.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Jacob Al-Kirkisani.Com. on Genesis. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2492.'

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.

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_2492 (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. 251.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL