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Or 1473

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Or 1473
Title:
The Books of Jeremiah and Ezekiel
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
169 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1500-1599
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 1473

The Books of Jeremiah and Ezekiel

Contents

Jeremiah and Ezekiel with Targum Onḳelos, provided with superlinear punctuation.

Language(s): Hebrew, Jewish Babalonia Aramaic

ff. 1r-169v
Title: Nevi᾿im
Title: נביאים
Explicit: ברוך ייי לעולם אמן אמן. f. 169v
ff. 1v-92v
Title: Jeremiah
ff. 93r-169v
Title: Ezekiel

Physical Description

Vellum codex of approximately 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 169 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 320 × 225 mm.
Dimensions (written): 230 × 167 mm.
Foliation:

169 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end of the codex).

Collation

Originally 18 quires: i8, ii-xi10, xii-xiii8, xiv-xvii10, xviii5.

Quires signed with Hebrew letters on the first page.

Condition

Several pages stained. Folio 48 mutilated. Signs of water damage at the end.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 24

Written lines: 24

Ezekiel begins a new leaf.

The beginnings of the Hafṭarot are indicated in the margin.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square script; Biblical text and Targum with simple Babylonian (superlinear) punctuation, in alternate verses.

ff. 2-4
,
ff. 270-274
supplied in the 18th century.

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Accompanying Material

In the flyleaves at the end, three paper fragments have been added. The first contains a fragment of Judeo-Arabic letter (12th century?); the other two fragments contain Hebrew fragments with superlinear punctuation.

History

Origin: 1500-1599 16th century Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 24 November 1877: 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.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1473 (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. 140.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL