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Or 2559

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032-003376519
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Or 2559
Title:
Fragments of biblical commentaries
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
61 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2559 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Arabic
Hebrew
Scripts:
Arabic
Hebrew
Start Date:
1200
End Date:
1299
Date Range:
1200-1299
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Jeshua ben Judah, 1000-1099
Jeshua ben Judah, 1000-1099
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2559

Fragments of biblical commentaries

Contents

Fragments of Arabic commentaries on Leviticus and Psalms.

Language(s): Arabic, Hebrew

ff. 1r-61v
Title: Perushim
Title: פרושים
ff. 1r-53v
Title: Commentary on Leviticus 21, 22, 23, 24

A portion of the shorter recension of Abu al-Faraj Furḳan's Commentary on the Pentateuch. The author refers to the longer recension of his commentary in his comments on chapter 23:10, folio 21r.

The Hebrew text belonging to the verses commented on, or to quotations from other parts, are provided with the vowel-points in red. The Hebrew text is provided in Arabic characters.

A translation of chapters 22:17-22, 23:33-43, 24:1-4, 5-9, 10-23, is embodied.

Quotes several Karaite authorities.

Author: Abu al-Faraj Furḳan, active 11th century ישועה בן יהודה
ff. 54r-61v
Title: Commentary on Psalms (fragment)

A fragment of an Arabic commentary on Psalms 67:5-68:14.

A complete translation of Psalm 68 is embodied.

Physical Description

Paper codex of approximately 13th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 61 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 178 × 125 mm.
Dimensions (written): 125 × 90 mm.
Foliation:

61 folios (+ 3 paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end).

Collation

Quires of originally 10 leaves each, only nos. 15-16 are complete.

Signatures of Arabic words in the left-hand upper corner of the first page, for the most part not preserved.

Condition

Number of pages damaged and stained.

Slightly worm-eaten.

Gaps after folio 1, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 25, 28, 29, 31 and 53.

Imperfect at the beginning and at the end.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 13

Written lines: 13

Uniform layout.

Some pages left blank.

Hand(s)

Naskhi script of approximately 13th century.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Comm. on Leviticus and Psalms. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Or. 2559.'

History

Origin: 1200-1299 13th 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_2559 (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. 315.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL