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Or 2550

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Or 2550
Title:
Japheth ben Ali ha-Levi's commentary on the Minor Prophets
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
120 folios
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Languages:
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Judeo-Arabic
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1000
End Date:
1099
Date Range:
1000-1099
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CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
ha-Levi, Japheth ben Ali, 0900-0999
ha-Levi, Japheth ben Ali, 0900-0999
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Or 2550

Japheth ben Ali ha-Levi's commentary on the Minor Prophets

Contents

The commentary of Japheth ben Ali ha-Levi on the Minor Prophets.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-120v
Title: Perush nevi᾿im aḥaronim
Title: פרוש נביאים אחרונים
Author: Japheth ben Ali, ha-Levi,‏ active 10th century יפת בן עלי, הלוי

Contains fragments of the Minor Prophets: the Hebrew text in Arabic transcription, with the Arabic translation and commentary of Japheth ben Ali.

The following portions of the Hebrew text are preserved: Habakuk 3:14-19, Zephaniah 1:1-2:7, 2:9-3:5, 3:8-20, Haggai 1:3-2:3, 2:10-23, Zechariah 1:1-17, 2:4-3:2, 3:5-8:10, 8:13-9:1, Malachi 3:23-24.

Filiation: Apparently written by the same hand as [BL] Or 2554 (Margoliouth, no. 301) and [BL] Or 2548 (Margoliouth, no. 279).

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 11th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 120 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 222 × 177 mm.
Dimensions (written): 155 × 145 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Originally 24 quires of mostly 10 leaves each. At present, only quires nos. 7 and 14-17 are complete, nos. 1-6 and 19-23 are lost entirely.

Condition

Missing portion at the beginning and at the end; lacunae after folios: 18, 26, 35, 41, 59, 67, 107, 116.

Most of the extant leaves are more or less mutilated.

Fading ink.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 11 14

Written lines: 11 14

Running title in Hebrew, added by a later hand.

Hand(s)

An Arabic script of 11th century.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Minor Prophets. Yefet's Comm. Heb. & Arab. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2550.'

History

Origin: 1000-1099 11th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 8 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_2550 (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. 289.
    [Hoerning_1889] 38-44

Bibliography

    [BL] BL = British Library shelfmark
    [Hoerning_1889] Reinhart Hoerning. 'British Museum Karaite Mss. : Descriptions and Collation of Six Karaite Manuscripts of Portions of the Hebrew Bible in Arabic Characters ; with a Complete Reproduction by the Autotype Process of One, Exodus I, 1-VIII, 5 in 42 Facsimiles / Reinhart Hoerning.'London: Williams and Norgate, 1889.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL