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Or 2368

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032-003376831
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Or 2368
Title:
Exodus
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
86 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2368 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
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 2368

Exodus

Contents

Summary of Contents: The book of Exodus with a verse-by-verse translation into Aramaic, an Arabic translation of Sa'adia Gaon, and provided with the simple superlinear punctuation.

Language(s): Hebrew, Jewish Babalonia Aramaic, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-86v
Title: Shemot
Title: שמות
Language(s): Hebrew, Jewish Babalonia Aramaic, Judeo-Arabic

Missing chapters: 1:1-11; 22:6-21; 27:7-20; 28:12-26; 39:7-20.

Text and Targum are provided with the simple superlinear punctuation and also with the superlinear Ethnah.

Simple pen-decorated parashah signs. f. 5v, 15v, 24v

ff. 1r-86v
Title: Exodus

Physical Description

Vellum codex of probably 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support: Parchment codex with many damaged pages repaired with paper.
Extent: 86 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 320 × 235 mm.
Dimensions (written): 235 × 185 mm.
Foliation:

86 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Quires mostly of 10 leaves.

Condition

Much stained or blurred in parts, occasionally also a little damaged. Imperfect at the beginning and also having lacunae between some leaves in the body of the mss.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 24

Written lines: 24

The writing depends from the ruled line.

Visible pricking.

Ruling with hard-point is visible, lines ruled on the flesh side.

Manuscript imperfect at the beginning and at the end.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square script with punctutation, probably of 15th century.

Decoration

Decorated parashah signs.

Pen-decorated parashah signs. f. 5v, 15v, 24v

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 23 July 1881.

1881-07-23

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_2368 (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. 112.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL