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Or 2371

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Or 2371
Title:
Former Prophets with Targum
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
217 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2371 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Arabic
Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Scripts:
Arabic
Hebrew
Start Date:
1589
End Date:
1642
Date Range:
1589-1642
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Aharon ha-Kohen
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2371

Former Prophets with Targum

Contents

The Former Prophets with Targum, punctuated, with masorah magna and parva.

Language(s): Hebrew, Aramaic

ff. 1v-217v
Title: Nevi᾿im
Title: נביאים

Folio 216v contains a subscription in a later hand, which may be a copy of the original subscription of the manuscript.

Judges 4:23-5:31 have also an Arabic translation.

Filiation: Written by the same hand as [BL] Or 1474 (Margoliouth, no. 139) and similar to [BL] Or 1471 (Margoliouth, no. 130), which is dated 1589. This volume is a companion to [BL] Or 1474, which contains the Latter Prophets.
Colophon: ותהי השלמתו יום שלישי י"ח יום לחדש מרחשון שנת א'ת'ת'ק'נ'ד' במאתא מעבר ת'ו' ות'ו'ב'י'ר'. f. 216v
ff. 1v-32v
Title: Joshua
ff. 32v-65r
Title: Judges
ff. 65v-140v
Title: Samuel

2Samuel starts on folio 107r.

ff. 141r-216v
Title: Kings

2Kings starts on folio 180r.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 217 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 311 × 203 mm.
Foliation:

Original foliation in Hebrew letters.

Collation

22 quires of 10 leaves each, apart from the last of 7 leaves only.

The quires are signed with Hebrew letters on the first and last page (lost after 11th quire).

Condition

Folios 1-3, 209-215 are imperfectly preserved.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 26

Written lines: 26

Uniform layout.

Masorah magna occupies generally two lines in the upper and one to four lines in the lower margin of the page.

The titles of the books are written on the verso of each leaf in the upper margin.

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

The beginning and the end of the Hafṭarot are indicated in the margin.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square script, punctuated.

ff. 216-217
due to later hands.

Additions:

Folios 217r-217v contain doodles.

Comments of a non-masoretic character are found throughout, e.g. 42v, 45r.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Former Prophets with Targum. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2371.'

History

Origin: 1589-1642 Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

A Hebrew inscription on folio 216v, with a date of 18 Marheshvan 1954, i.e. 1642, and the name of the city of Ma'abar, due to a later hand.

Aharon ha-Kohen, inscribed with his name on folio 1r.

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 23 July 1881: 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_2371 (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. 131.

Bibliography

    [BL] BL = British Library shelfmark

Funding of Cataloguing

BL