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Or 2515

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Or 2515
Title:
Commentary on Lamentations
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
244 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1490
End Date:
1509
Date Range:
1490-1509
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
Salmon ben Jeroham, 0900-0999
Salmon ben Jeroham, 0900-0999
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2515

Commentary on Lamentations

Contents

A Judeo-Arabic commentary on Lamentations.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-244v
Title: Perush
Title: פרוש

Imperfect at the beginning.

The unpointed Hebrew text is embodied, wanting chapters: 1:6, 9-10; 3:17-18, 63-66; 4:2, 8-9.

Each verse is followed by an Arabic translation.

Author: Salmon ben Yeroḥam, active 10th century סלמון בן ירחם, קראי
ff. 1v-12v
Title: Introduction
ff. 13r-244v
Title: Commentary

The date of the composition is found on folio 129r as 933, and not 956 as in Margoliouth, no. 252.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the end of 15 or the beginning of 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 244 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 180 × 130 mm.
Dimensions (written): 135 × 95 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

27 quires of 10 leaves each, except the last which has 6 leaves only.

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

Lacunae after folios: 27, 36, 44, 46, 76, 85, 134, 163, 171, 180, 209.

Visible marks of water-damage.

Stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 15

Written lines: 15

Visible hard-point ruling.

Biblical verses are given in square characters.

Catchword on every verso.

Hand(s)

Oriental square and semi-cursive script, unpunctuated, of the end of 15th or beginning of 16th century.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Salmon ben Yerucham. Comm. on Lamentations. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2515.'

History

Origin: 1490-1509

Provenance and Acquisition

1882-07-08

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_2515 (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. 253.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL