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Or 2555

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Or 2555
Title:
Karaite commentary on Ecclesiastes
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
129 folios
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Languages:
Arabic
Hebrew
Scripts:
Arabic
Hebrew
Start Date:
1200
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1200-1399
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2555

Karaite commentary on Ecclesiastes

Contents

An Arabic commentary on the Book of Ecclesiastes.

Language(s): Arabic and Hebrew

ff. 1r-129v
Title: Commentary on Ecclesiastes

Contains Exodus 13:17-15:1, 15:22-17:7, 18:1-21:36, 22:4-30:21, 30:33-32:29, 33:12-34:26. Pointed and accentuated Hebrew text, with a translation and short commentary in (Judeo-)Arabic.

The Hebrew text of Ecclesiastes, wirtten in Arabic characters, and provided with the Hebrew vowel-points, with an Arabic translation and commentary.

Chapters: 1:1-2:21; 3:3-6; 16-17; 4:17; 5:7; 11:1-4; 12:3-14 are wanting.

Text and translation are always introduced by a formula: قال قوهيلث and the comments by: قال الهغس.

Physical Description

Paper codex of approximately 13th to 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 129 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 175 × 135 mm.
Dimensions (written): 140 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

7 complete quires, folios 42-111, marked by Arabic letters on the upper left-hand corner of the first page, and parts of a number of incomplete quires.

Condition

Imperfect at the beginning and at the end.

Many folios damaged in the margins (modern restoration, stuck on paper).

Slightly worm-eaten.

Stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 11 14

Written lines: 11 14

Uniform layout.

Hand(s)

Arabic Naskhi script of approximately 13th to 14th century.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine title: 'Ecclesiastes with Commentary. Hebrew & Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2555.'

History

Origin: 1200-1399 13th-14th 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_2555 (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. 339.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL