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Or 2372

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032-003376835
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Or 2372
Title:
Latter Prophets
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
117 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2372 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1300-1399
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2372

Latter Prophets

Contents

The Latter Prophets, accentuated and punctuated, with masorah magna and parva.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-117v
Title: Nevi᾿im
Title: נביאים
ff. 1r-25v
Title: Isaiah

Missing chapters: 1:1-8:14.

ff. 26r-62r
Title: Jeremiah
ff. 62r-94v
Title: Ezekiel
ff. 94v-98v
Title: Hosea
ff. 98v-100r
Title: Joel
ff. 100r-104r
Title: Amos
ff. 104r-104r
Title: Obadiah
ff. 104r-105v
Title: Jonah
ff. 105v-108r
Title: Micah
ff. 108r-108v
Title: Nahum
ff. 108v-110r
Title: Habakkuk
ff. 110r-111r
Title: Zephaniah
ff. 111r-112v
Title: Haggai
ff. 112v-117v
Title: Zechariah
ff. 117v-117v
Title: Malachi

Missing chpaters: 1:2-3:24.

Physical Description

Vellum codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 117 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 350 × 228 mm.
Dimensions (written): 250 × 167 mm.
Foliation:

117 folios (+2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end of the manuscript).

Original Hebrew foliation added by a later hand, only partly visible.

Collation

17 quires extant, of 6 to 7 leaves each.

Imperfect at the beginning and at the end.

Condition

A number of pages stained; some of the mutilated leaves restored on paper.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 29

Written lines: 29

Visible bifolio ruling with hard point.

Zechariah opens a new column, and Jeremiah, Obadiah and Nahum commence a new leaf.

The chapters have been numbered with Hebrew letters by a later hand, but not throughout the whole manuscript.

Masorah magna occupies two lines in the upper and three in the lower margin of each page.

The titles of the books are written at the top of the recto of each folio.

A number of masoretic notes appear at the beginning of Jeremiah, 25r-25v.

Hand(s)

Sefardi square script of approximately 14th century.

Binding

BM/BL in-house binding.

History

Origin: 1300-1399 14th century Spain?

Provenance and Acquisition

1881-07-23

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_2372 (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. 136.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL