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Or 2545

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Or 2545
Title:
Abu al-Faraj Furḳan's commentary on the Pentateuch (volume 2)
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
210 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2545 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Arabic
Hebrew
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Arabic
Hebrew
Start Date:
1100
End Date:
1199
Date Range:
1100-1199
Era:
CE
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Names:
Jeshua ben Judah, 1000-1099
Jeshua ben Judah, 1000-1099
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
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Or 2545

Abu al-Faraj Furḳan's commentary on the Pentateuch (volume 2)

Contents

An Arabic commentary on the Pentateuch by Abu al-Faraj Furḳan (volume 2).

Language(s): Arabic, Hebrew

ff. 1r-208v
Title: Perush Torah
Title: פרוש תורה

The Hebrew text in Arabic characters, with the Hebrew vowel-points and accents in red ink, is embodied, comprising: Exodus 19:9-16, 20:11-26, 21:22-22:3, 22:6-7, 15, 24-27, 23:15-24, 24:1-11, 24:15-26:12, 26:18-27:18, 27:21, 28:16-20; Leviticus 4:22-5:6, 6:3-16, 20-23, 8:30-33, 9:2-7, 9:23-10:3, 11:23, 25:47-53, 27:26-34.

The work is arranged according to the weekly pericopes.

Sections of the Hebrew text, with an Arabic translation after each verse, precede each portion of the commentary.

Before each pericope some verses from other parts of the Bible are given.

At the end of a book and of a pericope the number of verses is indicated by means of Arabic letters in red ink.

On the last leaf of the manuscript begins the commentary on the last chapter of Leviticus.

Filiation: Cf volume 1 of this work, [BL] Or 2544 (Margoliouth, no. 310).
Author: Abu al-Faraj Furḳan, active 11th century ישועה בן יהודה

Physical Description

Paper codex of approximately 12th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 210 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 206 × 135 mm.
Dimensions (written): 160 × 90 mm.
Foliation:

210 folios (+ 2 paper flyleaves at the beginning and 1 at the end).

Collation

Quires of originally 10 leaves each, marked in the left-hand upper corner with Arabic words.

Condition

Lacunae after folios: 12, 21, 31, 45, 48, 61, 115.

Imperfect at the beginning and at the end.

Last portion is considerably damaged.

Some folios are worm-eaten.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 15 17

Written lines: 15 17

At the end of a book and of a pericope the number of verses is indicated by Arabic letters in red ink.

Hand(s)

Three Naskhi hands of approximately 12th century.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Pentateuch with Commentary. Hebrew and Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2545.'

History

Origin: 1100-1199 12th century

Provenance and Acquisition

1882-07-08

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 08 July 1882: 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_2545 (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. 311.

Bibliography

    [BL] BL = British Library shelfmark

Funding of Cataloguing

BL