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Or 2554

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Or 2554
Title:
Japheth ben Ali ha-Levi's biblcal commentary
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Extent:
95 folios
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Languages:
Arabic
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Start Date:
1004
End Date:
1005
Date Range:
1004-1005
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CE
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Names:
Abu l-Faraj Ya'ḳub
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
Yesha῾yah ben Tsaliḥ ben ῾Azaryahu
ha-Levi, Japheth ben Ali, 0900-0999
ha-Levi, Japheth ben Ali, 0900-0999
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Or 2554

Japheth ben Ali ha-Levi's biblcal commentary

Contents

The commentary of Japheth ben Ali ha-Levi on the Song of Songs and Ruth (fragments).

Language(s): Hebrew, Arabic

ff. 1r-95v
Title: Perushim
Title: פרושים
Author: Japheth ben Ali, ha-Levi,‏ active 10th century יפת בן עלי, הלוי

The volume contains the Hebrew text of the Book of Ruth and the Song of Songs in an Arabic phonetic transcription, with an Arabic translation and Yefet's commentary.

The scribal subscription, folio 95v, shows that the manuscript was written in Yefet's lifetime, i.e. in the early 11th century.

ff. 1v-25v
Title: Ruth

Missing chapters 3:3-4:10.

ff. 25v-95v

Missing chapters 3:9-5:14.

Title: Song of Songs

Physical Description

Paper codex of the beginning of the 11th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 95 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 230 × 180 mm.
Dimensions (written): 160 × 140 mm.
Foliation:

95 folios (+ 1 paper flyleaf at the beginning and 2 at the end).

Collation

Quires originally of 10 leaves each, divided into 2 parts of 4 and 11 quires respectively.

Most of the quires are now imperfect.

The quires are signed with Arabic letters on the left-hand upper corner of the first page. A separate enumeration is used for each of the two parts.

Condition

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

Partially water-damaged.

Sings of worm-eating.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 11 15

Written lines: 11 15

Uniform layout.

The diacritic points are generally added.

Hand(s)

A Naskhi hand of the early 11th century.

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Ruth & Canticles with Yefet's Commentary. Hebrew & Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2554.'

History

Origin: 1004-1005 Ramlah

Provenance and Acquisition

Abu l-Faraj Ya'ḳub: inscribed with a date of 1004-1005, Ramlah, folio 95v.

Yesha῾yah ben Tsaliḥ ben ῾Azaryahu: inscribed, folio 25r.

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 (ii)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_2554 (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. 301.
    [Hoerning_1889] 21-27

Bibliography

    [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

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