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Or 1478

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032-003376494
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Or 1478
Title:
Prophets and Hagiographa
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
126 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1478 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1300-1399
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 1478

Prophets and Hagiographa

Contents

Parts of the Prophets and the Hagiographa, punctuated and accentuated, with masorah magna and parva.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-126v
Title: Nevi᾿im u-Khetuvim
Title: נביאים וכתובים
ff. 1r-2r
Title: Judges

Missing chapters 1:1-20:7.

ff. 2r-31r
Title: Samuel

2Samuel starts on folio 18r.

ff. 31r-61r
Title: Kings

2Kings starts on folios 46v.

ff. 61v-82r
Title: Isaiah
ff. 82r-109r
Title: Jeremiah

Missing chapters: 44:25-48:4.

ff. 109r-111r
Title: Ezekiel

Missing chapters: 5:8-48:35.

ff. 111r-115r
Title: Daniel

Missing chapters: 3:20-5:29; 8:25-11:40.

ff. 115r-121r
Title: Ezra

Missing chapters: 4:3-10:44.

Nehemiah starts on folio 119r (missing chapters: 1:1-4:17a).

ff. 121r-126v
Title: 2 Chronicles

Missing chapters: 4:15-18:1.

Physical Description

Vellum codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 126 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 315 × 250 mm.
Dimensions (written): 245 × 165 mm.
Foliation:

126 folios (+ 2 unfoliated folios at the beginning and at the end of the manuscript).

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

No catchwords.

The mansucripts is imperfect at the beginning and at the end, with leaves missing after folio 104, 110, 112, 114, 120.

Condition

Some folios are stained and/or damaged (see ff. 1, 120).

Layout

Columns:3

Ruled lines: 28

Written lines: 28

Masorah magna occupies three lines in the upper and four lines in the lower margin, where it sometimes forms micrographic patterns (e.g. 25v, 26r).

Pricking and ruling (with hard-point on the hair side of the folio) are visible.

Hand(s)

Sefardi square script, main text is punctuated and accentuated, the masorah is unpunctuated.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

History

Origin: 1300-1399 14th century Unknown

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 24 November 1899: 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.

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1478 (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. 122.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL