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Or 2370

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032-003376833
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Or 2370
Title:
Former Prophets
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
206 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2370 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1460
End Date:
1461
Date Range:
1460-1461
Calendar:
Seleucid
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Benayah ben Se'adyah ben Zekharyah ben Margaz
[...] ben Zekharyah Alboni
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2370

Former Prophets

Contents

Former Prophets, accentuated and punctuated, with masorah magna and parva.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1v-206v
Title: Nevi᾿im
Title: נביאים
Colophon: נבצע בשנת אתש[ע"ב] לשטרותיהא סימ[ ] ברב זכריה רי"ת הידוע אלבוניאלה' יזכיה [ ]ניו ולה[ב] מעתה ועד עולם הוא וזרעו וזרע זרעו אנס"ו ויתקיים עליו מקרא שכ[ ] ה' וישמ' יאר ה' פניו אל' ישא ה' פניו אל' וג' ספרא חלשא ומ[ס]ינא קל ה[ק ] בניה בן סעדיה בן זכריה בן מרגזאלה ימחול לי על מה ששגיתי וטעית[ ] ונסתר מ[ ] שגיאות מי יבין מנסתרות נקיני אנ"ס ישע יקרב ששון יע[ר] f. 206v
ff. 1v-32v
Title: Joshua
ff. 32v-62r
Title: Judges
ff. 62r-132v
Title: Samuel

2Samuel starts at f. 100v.

ff. 132v-206v
Title: Kings

2Kings starts at f. 171r.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 206 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 283 × 205 mm.
Dimensions (written): 205 × 126 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

21 quires of 10 leaves each, apart from the first and the last quire, which have only 8 leaves each.

The quires are signed with Hebrew letters on the first page and marked with catchwords on the last page.

Condition

The first three leaves and the last leaf are not fully preserved.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 19

Written lines: 19

Masorah magna occupies generally one line at the top and one line in the bottom margin of the page.

A number of masoretic rubrics is given at the end of each books.

The titles of the books are written at the top of every page and the chapters are numbered with Hebrew letters by later hands.

Hand(s)

Oriental square script, punctuated, of the 15th century. Benayah ben Se'adyah ben Zekharyah ben Margaz: inscribed with his name in the colophon, f. 206v. For manuscripts of the same scribe see Or 2210, 2211, 2348, 2375 (G. 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), nos. 128, 138, 89, 147).

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine title: 'Former Prophets. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2370.'

History

Origin: 1460-1461 Yemen (Sanaʿa?)

Provenance and Acquisition

[...] ben Zekharyah Alboni?: inscribed with his name in the colophon, folio 206v.

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_2370 (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. 127.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL