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Or 1471

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Or 1471
Title:
Former Prophets
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
254 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1471 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1589
End Date:
1589
Date Range:
1589
Calendar:
Seleucid
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Se'adyah ben David ben Zekharyah ben Amram al-Akhlufi
Yosef ben Zekharyah ben Me'oded ben Se'adyah al-Kaisi
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 1471

Former Prophets

Contents

Summary of Contents: Former Prophets: Hebrew text with ordinary punctuation and Targum with simple superlinear punctuation in alternate verses; with masorah magna and parva. Maḥberet ha-tigan is prefixed.

Language(s): Hebrew, Jewish Babalonia Aramaic

ff. 1r-254v
Title: Nevi᾿im
Title: נביאים

The manuscript was made for a synagogue called Kenisah Latsaf[כניסה לצף].

Colophon: נשלם זה הנביאים בחסד האל וברחמיו יום שלישי דהוא תרין יומין לירח אב ייהפך לששון שנת אתתק [?] שנין לשטרי במאתא אלכברה תחרוב ותצדי וירשלם תתבני ותשתכלל אמן כין יאמ' רחום ונכתב על שם בית הכנסת הקדושה וטהורה על שם [?] החבר הטוב והנעים ילד שעשועים סעדיה בן דוד בן זכריא בן עמרם העדוע אלאכלופי קנה אותו לשם בית הכנסת כניסה לצף אלהים יזכיהם להגות בו ולדקדק בעניניו ולגלות מצפוניו ... כתבתי ונקדתי ודקדקתי כיד אלהי הטובה עלי אני קל הקלים ועפר רגלי [...] יוסף בן זכריא בן מעודד בן סעדיא הידוע אלקיסי אלהים ימחול לי על כל מה ששגיתי ... f. 254r

ff. 26v-27r
Two full pages filled with micrographic designs.

ff. 1v-26r
Title: Maḥberet ha-tigan
ff. 28v-59v
Title: Joshua
ff. 59v-92r
Title: Judges
ff. 92v-169r
Title: Samuel

2Samuel starts on folio 134v.

ff. 169v-254r
Title: Kings

2Kings starts on folio 210v.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 254 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 298 × 203 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

25 quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

The quires are signed with Hebrew letters on the first and the last page.

Leaves numbered with Hebrew letters.

Condition

Folios 249-254 are not fully preserved.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 26

Written lines: 26

Masorah magna occupies generally one to four lines in the lower and one to three lines in the upper margin of the page.

A number of masoretic notes is given at the end of each book.

All the books except Judges, commence a new page.

The beginning and the end of the Hafṭarot are indicated in the margin. An annual cycle for the complete Bible is also noted in various places.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square script, punctuated. Yosef ben Zekharyah ben Me'oded ben Se'adyah al-Kaisi; inscribed with his name in the colophon, folio 254r, with an uncertain date of 1900. The same person also punctuated the whole manuscript.

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Joshua-Kings, with Targum. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1471.'

History

Origin: 1589 Yemen (Al-Kharba)

Provenance and Acquisition

Se'adyah ben David ben Zekharyah ben Amram al-Akhlufi; inscribed with his name in the colophon, folio 254r.

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_1471 (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. 130.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL