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Or 2583

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Or 2583
Title:
Perush ῾al hafṭarot
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
50 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2583 (digital images currently unavailable)
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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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Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2583

Perush ῾al hafṭarot

Contents

A Judeo-Arabic commentary on the Hafṭarot of Exodus.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-50v
Title: Perush ῾al hafṭarot
Title: פרוש על הפטרות

The unpointed Hebrew biblical text is embodied.

The commentary is anonymous, but from the information on folio 4r and 6v it can be inferred that he lived in Egypt.

The work quotes several authorities, including Targum Jonathan, Sifra, Masekhet Zevahim, Rashi, Abu ‘l Walid and Moses Maimonides.

Explicit: נשלם פירוש ההפטרות של ספר ואלה שמות בעזרת שוכן מרומות אשר לו תהלל כל הנשמות הוא ברחמיו הרבים יפרוש עלינו סוכת שלמות ויגלה לנו כל התעלומות א'נ'ס' בריך רחמנא דסייען [?]. f. 50v
ff. 1r-8r
Title: 1 Kings 5:28-6:13.

Imperfect at the beginning.

ff. 8r-21r
Title: Ezekiel 43:10-27.
ff. 21r-39v
Title: 1 Kings 18:1-45.
ff. 39v-46r
Title: 1 Kings 7:13-22
ff. 46r-50v
Title: 1 Kings 7:40-50

Physical Description

Paper codex of approximately 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 50 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 175 × 125 mm.
Dimensions (written): 135 × 90 mm.
Foliation:

50 folios (+ 3 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end).

Collation

5 quires of 10 leaves.

Quires signed with Hebrew letters on the first and last pages.

Condition

Imperfect at the beginning.

A number of pages partially damaged; large signs of book-worming.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 15

Written lines: 15

Blank spaces left on folios: 5r, 5v, 10r, 12v and 14v, were intended to be filled up with figures illustrative of the building of the temple.

Hand(s)

Oriental square and semi-cursive script, unpunctuated, of approximately 15th century.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Comm. on Hafṭaroth. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Or. 2583.'

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century Egypt?

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 (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_2583 (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. 247.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL