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Or 2511
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- Or 2511
- Title:
- Japheth ben Ali ha-Levi's commentary on the Book of Job
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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:
- 150 folios
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- Languages:
- Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic - Scripts:
- Hebrew
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 1400-1499
- Era:
- CE
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Or 2511
Japheth ben Ali ha-Levi's commentary on the Book of Job
Contents
The commentary of Japheth ben Ali ha-Levi on the book of Job, chapters 23-42.
Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic
ff. 1r-150vTitle: Perush IyovTitle: פרוש איובThe pointed Hebrew text, accompanied by a verse by verse Arabic translation, is embodied.
Of the Hebrew text the following parts are preserved: 23:1-24:4, 25:3-5, 27:16-28:18, 29:1-11, 29:15-32:13, 32:20-36:22, 36:26-37:11, 37:18-38:7, 38:16-34, 38:38-39:8, 39:19-41:2, 41:5-42:7, 42:9-17.
Has a scribal subscription at the beginning.
Masoretic division into sections and קרי are marked in the margins.
The numbers of the chapters of the printed text have been added by a later hand.
Incipit: שרח אלנצף אלתאני מן שרח איוב ללמעלם אבו עלי אלבצרי ר'י'ת'. f. 1rIncipit: בשם יוי אל עולם תפסיר אלנצף אלתאני מן שרח ספר איוב. f. 1vPhysical Description
Paper codex of the 15th century.Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport:Extent: 150 foliosDimensions (leaf): 180 × 136 mm.Dimensions (written): 125 × 90 mm.Foliation:150 folios (+ 2 paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).
Collation
18 quires (nos. 1-2, 4-19), originally of 10 leaves each (except the 18th which has 11 leaves).
Apart from the quires 6-8, 11-12, 17, all the quires are imperfect.
The quires are signed with Hebrew letters and Arabic words on the upper margin of the first page.
Condition
Lacunae after folios: 7, 8, 16, 22, 53, 71, 91, 99, 107, 115, 119, 133, 143.
Many folios stained or water-damaged.
Layout
Columns:1
Ruled lines: 14
Written lines: 14
Uniform layout.
The numbers of the chapters have been added by a later hand.
Separate title page (folio 1r).
Hand(s)
Oriental square and semi-cursive script of the 15th century.
Additions:Binding
BM/BL in-house.
Spine: 'Yefet. Comm. on Job. Vol. II. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2511.'
History
Origin: 1400-1499 15th centuryProvenance and Acquisition
Folio 150v contains a geneology of the previous owner and a rhyme.
Avraham ben Shelomoh ben Shemu᾿el ben Eliyahu ben Aharon ben Yitsḥaḳ ben Eliyahu Firuz: inscribed in a note, folio 1r .
An entry recording the name and genealogy of the same owner is also found on folio 150v.
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_2511 (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. 296.Bibliography
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