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Or 1477

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Or 1477
Title:
Hagiographa
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
116 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1477 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1300-1399
Era:
CE
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Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
Yosef ben Seʿadyah ben Shalom
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 1477

Hagiographa

Contents

Parts of the Hagiographa, provided with vowel-points and Arabic translation in alternate verses.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1*-116v
Title: Ketuvim
Title: כתובים
ff. 1v-91v
Title: Psalms

Wanting chapters 2:3-18:48, 29:11-31:11, 32:7-37:8.

The Psalms are provided (up to Ps. 72)with special directions in Hebrew by a later hand, indicating their practical use for obtaining special favours or warding off certain calamities, with a heading 'Shemot Tehilim.'

Incipit: בעזרת אל סומך נופלים אתחיל לכתוב ספר תהלים. f. 1v
ff. 92v-108v
Title: Ecclesiastes
ff. 108v-114v
Title: Song of Songs
Incipit: בשם רחמן תפסיר שיר השירים לבעץ אלעלמא ז"ל. f. 108v
ff. 115v-116v
Title: Lamentations

Wanting chapters 1:17 to the end.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 116 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 240 × 185 mm.
Dimensions (written): 190 × 138 mm.
Foliation:

116 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Originally upwards of 14 quires mostly of 10 leaves each, but quires 2-14 are not preserved.

The quires are marked with catchwords on the last page.

Condition

Several larger lacunas. Some leaves are imperfectly preserved.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 23 24

Written lines: 23 24

The Psalms are divided into 5 parts.

The sedarim are marked in the margins, with a simple pen and ink design.

Occasional masoretic notes are preserved in the margins.

Hand(s)

Yemenite (showing similarity to Persian) square script, punctuated, of the 14th century.

f. 1v, 113r due to later hands, of approxiamtely 17th century. Psalms are also numbered by a later hand.

f. 108r a midrashic Targum on Song of Songs 1:1 is provided by a later hand.

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

History

Origin: 1300-1399 14th century Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Yosef ben Seʿadyah ben Shalom, inscribed with his name with no date, folio 115r.

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. Folio 1* supplied by him on 11 May 1879.

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_1477 (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. 146.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL