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Or 2540

Record Id:
032-003376283
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Or 2540
Title:
Pentateuch
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
21 folios (ii+21+x)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
0900
End Date:
0999
Date Range:
0900-0999
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2540

Pentateuch

Contents

Fragments of Exodus (chapter 1:1-8:5) written in Arabic characters.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-21v
Title: Torah
Title: תורה

The system of transcription from Hebrew into Arabic characters is literal.

The Hebrew text is written in Arabic characters, with ordinary vowel-points (in red) and the accents (in green) added subsequently.

2 carpet pages in gold, red, and brown.

ff. 2v-3r

Numerous space fillers in colours and gold.

ff. 1r-21v
Title: Exodus

Only Ex. 1:1-8:5.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 10th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 21 folios (ii+21+x)
Dimensions (leaf): 235 × 175 mm.
Dimensions (written): 165 × 125 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Indeterminable.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 7 10

Written lines: 7 10

Parasha Ṿa-era is marked by فرس' in gold in the margin.

The punctuation is provided in red ink and the accents in green ink.

Hand(s)

Arabic Naskhi script of 10th century.

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house binding.

History

Origin: 0900-0999 Approximately 10th century Egypt or Palestine

Provenance and Acquisition

K. B. No. 1: inscribed, (f. 1r).

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 8 July 1882: inscribed, back flyleaf (ix)v.

1882-07-08

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_2540 (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. 104.
    Bezalel Narkiss, Illuminations from Hebrew Bibles of Leningrad (Jerusalem: The Bialik Institute, 1990), p. 38.
    Ilana Tahan, 'Karaite Book of Exodus', in In the Beginning: Bibles before the Year 1000, edited by Michelle P. Brown (Washington, D.C. : Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 2006.), p. 273.
    Ilana Tahan, Hebrew Manuscripts: The Power of Script and Image (London, British Library, 2007), pp. 14-17.
    [Hoerning_1889] X-XI

Bibliography

    [Hoerning_1889] Reinhart Hoerning. 'British Museum Karaite Mss. : Descriptions and Collation of Six Karaite Manuscripts of Portions of the Hebrew Bible in Arabic Characters ; with a Complete Reproduction by the Autotype Process of One, Exodus I, 1-VIII, 5 in 42 Facsimiles / Reinhart Hoerning.'London: Williams and Norgate, 1889.

Funding of Cataloguing

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