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Or 5063

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Or 5063
Title:
Perush Tanḥum ha-Yerushalmi
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
218 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_5063 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1326
End Date:
1326
Date Range:
1326
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Hebrew
Era:
CE
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Names:
Tanḥum ben Joseph, 1220-1291
Tanḥum ben Joseph, 1220-1291
Yitsḥaḳ ben Yefet he-ḥazan
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Or 5063

Perush Tanḥum ha-Yerushalmi

Contents

The commentary of Tanḥum Yerushalmi on Ecclesiastes, in Arabic, with the Hebrew text embodied.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-218r
Title: Perush Tanḥum ben Yosef ha-Yerushalmi ῾al sefer Ḳohelet
Title: פירוש תנחום בן יוסף הירושלמי על ספר קהלת
Author: Tanḥum ben Yosef ha-Yerushalmi תנחום בן יוסף,‏ הירושלמי‏
Colophon: נגמר פירוש ר' תנחום על ספר קהלת ב יום שביעי מחדש מרחשון שנת חמשת אלפין ותמנין ושבעה שנין ליצירה במדינת נא אמון האל יזכה הקורא בו לבנין הארמון בזכות אב המון וכתב התלמיד הצעיר יצחק בר יפת החזן ת"נ"צ"ב"ה. f. 218r

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 218 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 171 × 127 mm.
Dimensions (written): 128 × 83 mm.
Foliation:

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

Leaves originally numbered with Coptic figures, for the most part preserved.

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

Condition

Ten leaves are missing at the beginning. One leaf is missing after folio 168 and 176.

A number of leaves are more or less damaged.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 17

Written lines: 17

Watermarks on folio 2 and back flyleaf (i). The first watermark is a hand, the second watermark is a vase with a crescent at the top and a monogramm (CO?), similar to [Heawood_1950] 3603 (dated to 1646, England).

Uniform layout.

Hand(s)

Oriental square and semi-cursive script, partly punctuated.

Additions:

Yitsḥaḳ ben Yefet he-ḥazan: his name inscribed in the colophon, on folio 218r.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Tanhum Yerushalmi. Commentary On Ecclesiastes. Arabic-Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 5063.'

History

Origin: 1326 Egypt (Alexandria)

Provenance and Acquisition

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_5063 (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. 207.

Bibliography

    [Heawood_1950] Edward Heawood. 'Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries. [With a Portrait.]'. Hilversum: Paper Publications Society, 1950.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL