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Or 2521

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Or 2521
Title:
The Book of Psalms
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
166 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2521 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1532
End Date:
1532
Date Range:
1532
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Seleucid
Era:
CE
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Names:
Avraham Firuz
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
Shelomoh ben ... Daṿid Ḥazan
ha-Levi, Japheth ben Ali, 0900-0999
ha-Levi, Japheth ben Ali, 0900-0999
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Or 2521

The Book of Psalms

Contents

Summary of Contents: The Psalms of the weekly portions of Numbers and Deuteronomy according to the Karaite ritual, with Japheth ben Ali's translation and commentary.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-166v
Title: Perush Tehilim
Title: פרוש תהלים
Author: Japheth ben Ali, ha-Levi,‏ active 10th century יפת בן עלי, הלוי
Filiation: The list of Psalms in this manuscript agrees with the list in [BL] Or. 2531 (Margoliouth, no. 725), folios
ff. 9v-13r
.
Colophon: נשלם ספר שרח מזאמיר פרשיות של ספר במדבר בעזרת מי שבישראל בחר בשבוע לפני יוי תטהרו: והוא יום חמישי בשבוע והוא ששה ועשרים פי אלעומר שנת אלף ושמונה מאות וארבעים ושלשה שנים לשטרות בעיר דמשק ש' נ' א' ופ' מוש' ושלום: וכתב אתו הע' הצ' [...] שלמה בן [...] דוד החזן [...] בן [...] הזקן הנכבד אברהם אשר היה משרת ביר' עיר הק' ונטמן בה [...] הנודע באבן אלכאזרוני נ"ע אמן אמן: f. 88r
ff. 1r-10r
Title: Psalm 80

Missing verse 1.

ff. 10v-14v
Title: Psalm 67
ff. 14v-24v
Title: Psalm 27
ff. 24v-29v
Title: Psalm 95
ff. 29v-41v
Title: Psalm 55

Wanting verses 20-21.

ff. 41v-51v
Title: Psalm 51

Wanting verses 11-12, 15-18.

ff. 51v-61r
Title: Psalm 83
ff. 61r-63v
Title: Psalm 119

Wanting verses 123-125.

ff. 63v-75r
Title: Psalm 75
ff. 75r-89v
Title: Psalm 77
ff. 89v-101v
Title: Psalm 19
ff. 101v-110r
Title: Psalm 17
ff. 110r-113v
Title: Psalm 119
ff. 113v-121v
Title: Psalm 24
ff. 121v-130v
Title: Psalm 58
ff. 130v-139v
Title: Psalm 144
ff. 139v-143r
Title: Psalm 67
ff. 143r-152v
Title: Psalm 40
ff. 152v-162v
Title: Psalm 27
ff. 162v-166v
Title: Psalm 47

Physical Description

Paper codex of 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 166 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 186 × 130 mm.
Dimensions (written): 145 × 110 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

18 quires of mostly 10 leaves each, unsigned.

Condition

Lacunae after folios: 37, 48, 49, 54, 61.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 16

Written lines: 16

The Hebrew text is provided with no punctuation.

Catchword on every verso.

Hand(s)

Large semi-cursive script of 16th century. Shelomoh ben ... Daṿid Ḥazan: inscribed in the colophon, folio 88r.

ff. 166r-166v
- supplied by a later hand.

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Commentary on Psalms. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2521.'

History

Origin: 1532 Syria (Damascus)

Provenance and Acquisition

Avraham Firuz: inscribed in a note, folio 166v.

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 (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_2521 (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. 291.

Bibliography

    [BL] BL = British Library shelfmark

Funding of Cataloguing

BL