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Or 2703

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032-003376293
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Or 2703
Title:
Genesis
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
73 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2703 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1300-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
Sa'adia ben Joseph, Gaon, 882-942,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/95159227
Sa'adia ben Joseph, Gaon, 882-942,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/95159227
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2703

Genesis

Contents

Summary of Contents: Genesis with Targum Onḳelos and Sa'adia Gaon's Arabic translation in Hebrew characters, with superlinear punctuation.

Language(s): Hebrew, Aramaic, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-73v
Title: בראשית
Title: Bereshit
Title: Genesis

Fragments of Genesis, chapters: 2:24-5:14; 6:18-8:5; 9:16-10:32; 11:19-27:34; 28:3-32:11; 32:14-37:3; 37:8-37:14; 38:29-42:19; 46:5-47:7; 48:18-49:26.

Folios 72r-73v contain chapter 31:40-53 and chapter 9:25-10:15; the former is stylistically related to the rest of the manuscript, the latter has a style of its own; both these leaves have the targum and Arabic translation after each verse like the rest of the manuscript, but the contents are duplicates of parts contained in folios 1r-71v.

Fragments of Genesis, each verse being followed by the Targum of Onḳelos and Sa'adia's Arabic translation in the Hebrew characters.

Text and Targum have the simple superlinear punctuation.

Physical Description

Vellum codex of about 14th or 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 73 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 310 × 230 mm.
Dimensions (written): 240 × 200 mm.
Foliation:

73 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end)

Collation

Hard to establish since many folios/quires are missing. Extant quires are mostly of 6 leaves.

Condition

Many pages mutilated, especially folios 1-11.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 25

Written lines: 25

Visible pricking and ruling with hard-point.

Writing in two columns, with superlinear masoretic punctuation.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square script of the 14th-15th century; folio 73r-73v is probably later than than the whole manuscript.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

History

Origin: 1300-1499 14th or 15th century Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 January 1884: 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_2703 (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. 105.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL