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Or 1474

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Or 1474
Title:
The Latter Prophets
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
274 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1474 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1500-1699
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
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Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
Yeḥi᾿el Yosef Benyamin
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 1474

The Latter Prophets

Contents

Summary of Contents: The Latter Prophets with Targum Onḳelos and the Arabic translation of Isaiah by Sa'adyah Ga'on, provided with masorah magna and parva.

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

ff. 1r-274v
Title: Nevi᾿im
Title: נביאים
Filiation: The mansucript seems to have been written by the scribe of [BL] Or 1471 (Margoliouth, no. 130).
ff. 2r-70r
Title: Jeremiah
ff. 70v-131v
Title: Ezekiel
ff. 132r-222r
Title: Isaiah
ff. 222r-231r
Title: Hosea
ff. 231r-234v
Title: Joel
ff. 234v-241v
Title: Amos
ff. 241v-242v
Title: Obadiah
ff. 242v-244v
Title: Jonah
ff. 245r-250r
Title: Micah
ff. 250r-252r
Title: Nahum
ff. 252v-255r
Title: Habakuk
ff. 255r-257v
Title: Zephaniah
ff. 258r-259v
Title: Haggai
ff. 260r-270v
Title: Zechariah
ff. 270v-274r
Title: Malachi

Physical Description

Paper codex of 16 or 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 274 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 310 × 200 mm.
Dimensions (written): 260 × 150 mm.
Foliation:

274 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end).

Collation

Originally 27 quires of 10 leaves each, signed with Hebrew letters on the first and last pages.

Condition

Several pages stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 26

Written lines: 26

All the books except Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Nahum, Zephaniah and Malachi begin a new page.

The beginnings of the chapters according to the Christian division are marked in the margin with the letter 'samekh' and the respective number.

The beginning and the end of the Hafṭarot are indicated in the margin.

Masorah magna occupies one line in the upper and from one to two lines in the lower margin of each page.

The number of verses is stated at the end of each book, except Zechariah and Malachi.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square script; Biblical text with Tiberian punctuation, Targum with simple Babylonian (superlinear) punctuation, in alternate verses.

ff. 2-4
,
ff. 270-274
supplied in the 18th century.

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

History

Origin: 1500-1699 16th-17th century Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Previous owners' notes, in Judeo-Arabic: inscribed, folio 1r and 1v.

Yeḥi᾿el Yosef Benyamin: inscribed, folio 1r.

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 24 November 1877: 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.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1474 (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. 139.

Bibliography

    [BL] BL = British Library shelfmark

Funding of Cataloguing

BL