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Or 1472

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Or 1472
Title:
The Books of Samuel and Kings
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
167 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1472 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1512
End Date:
1513
Date Range:
1512-1513
Calendar:
Seleucid
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Musa ben Yeḥiel Alzabib
Yaḥya ibn Salam Alzabib
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 1472

The Books of Samuel and Kings

Contents

Summary of Contents: The book of Samuel and Kings, with Targum in alternate verses, accentuated and punctuated, with masorah magna and parva.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1v-167v
Title: Nevi᾿im
Title: נביאים
Colophon: נכתב זה הנביאים אשר הוא לעיני דורשו מאירו וכשמש מזהירו לכג"ק הכהנים הטובים צפירת תפארת מחמד עינינו ורביד על גרונינו וענק על צוארינו עשר ברביד החן נרבדים ובשם טוב נזבדים אדונינו ורבותינו [...] הכהן יש"ל ב[ ] יוסף הכהן רי"ת בן ישועה הכ[?הן ?] [...] כיהם להגות [בו?] ובתורתו הם וזרעם וזרע זרעם מעתה ועד עולם אנ"ס ויקיים עליהם מק' שכת' לא ימ' ספ' התו' הז' מפי' והג' ב' יומ' ולילה אמן כן יאמר בעל הרחמים אמן. f. 167r

Heavy pen and ink design with the inscription from Ps. 98:20. f. 82r

ff. 1v-81v
Title: Samuel

2Samuel starts on folio 45v.

 Heavy pen and ink design with the inscription from Ps. 98:20. f. 82r

ff. 82v-167v
Title: Kings

2Kings starts on folio 126r.

Physical Description

Vellum codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 167 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 358 × 253 mm.
Dimensions (written): 259 × 174 mm.
Foliation:

167 folios (+ 1 modern paper flyleaf at the beginning and 4 modern paper flyleaves at the end).

Collation

18 quires of 10 leaves each, divided into two parts of 9 quires each and numbered separately in Hebrew letters on the first page.

Quire 9 and 18 are not full.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 28

Written lines: 28

Kings opens on the verso of a new leaf.

Masorah magna occupies one line at the bottom and frequently also one line at the top of the page.

There is number of masoretic notes for each book.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square script, punctuated and accentuated, of the 16th century.

Decoration

Pen and ink design.

f. 82r Heavy pen and ink design with the inscription from Ps. 98:20.

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Samuel & Kings with Targum. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1472.'

History

Origin: 1512-1513 Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Yaḥya ibn Salam Alzabib and Musa ben Yeḥiel Alzabib: inscribed, folio 1r.

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_1472 (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. 133.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL