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Or 2542

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032-003376284
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Or 2542
Title:
Pentateuch
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
251 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2542 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Arabic
Hebrew
Scripts:
Arabic
Hebrew
Start Date:
1000
End Date:
1099
Date Range:
1000-1099
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2542

Pentateuch

Contents

Several portions of Hebrew Pentateuch written in Arabic characters, provided with Hebrew vowel-points and accents.

Language(s): Hebrew, Arabic

ff. 1r-251v
Title: Torah
Title: תורה

Pentateuch in the Arabic characters.

Appended are two small fragments of Exodus (40:9-16, 33-38), folios 250r-251v. The Hebrew text in an Arabic transcription with Hebrew vowel-points and Arabic translation of each verse.

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic
ff. 1r-43r
Title: Genesis (24:28-28:14)
ff. 43r-103r
Title: Exodus
ff. 103r-144r
Title: Leviticus
ff. 144r-203v
Title: Numbers
ff. 203v-250r
Title: Deuteronomy (1:1-31:9)
ff. 250r-251v
Title: Exodus (40:9-16, 33-38)

Physical Description

Paper codex probably of the 11th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 251 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 220 × 171 mm.
Dimensions (written): 15 × 1 lines.
Foliation:

251 folios (imperfect at the beginning and the end; a leaf is missing after folio 8).

Condition

The extant leaves are nearly all more or less damaged.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 15

Written lines: 15

1 column with 15 lines a page.

Vowel-points and accents are given in red ink.

The beginning of the weekly portions were marked by ؤاراش (i.e. 'פרש) in the margin - this mark is preserved only in a few instances, folio 49r, 171r.

Numbers of verses at the end of sections indicated by Arabic letters. Number of verses in each of the books of the Torah given in Arabic transcription of the Hebrew rubrics.

Hand(s)

A Naskhi hand of probably 11th century.

Binding

Accompanying Material

Appended are two small fragments of Exodus (40:9-16, 33-38). The Hebrew text in an Arabic transcription with Hebrew vowel-points and Arabic translation of each verse.

History

Origin: 1000-1099 11th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 8 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_2542 (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. 67.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL