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Or 2374
Title:
Hagiographa
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
180 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1475
End Date:
1524
Date Range:
1475-1524
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 2374

Hagiographa

Contents

The Hagiographa, provided with vowel-points, in parts with Aramaic and Arabic translation.

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

ff. 1r-180v
Title: Ketuvim
Title: כתובים
ff. 1r-61v
Title: Psalms

Missing chapters: 1:1-11:1, 25:14-28:3, 106:40-107:7, 126:1-135:17.

ff. 61v-84v
Title: Job

Missing chapters: 1:9-5:25, 36:16-37:23.

ff. 84v-104r
Title: Proverbs

Missing chapters: 20:21-22:8, 29:16-30:24.

ff. 104r-104r
Title: Lamentations

Missing: 1:1-5:13

ff. 104r-114r
Title: Daniel

Missing: 6:25-12:13

ff. 114r-123v
Title: Esther

Missing 1:1-6:11

ff. 123v-147v
Title: Ezra

Nehemiah starts on folio 134r.

ff. 147v-180v
Title: Chronicles

2Chronicles start on folio 164v. Missing 2Chron. 24:14-26:1, 34:28-36:23.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 15th to 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 180 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 340 × 235 mm.
Dimensions (written): 250 × 173 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

22 quires, originally of 10 leaves each.

Condition

Numerous lacunae.

Folia 12, 59, 61 and 107 are mutilated.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 28

Written lines: 28

Four blank lines are left between the end of the book and the beginning of another.

Psalms are divided into 5 books.

The beginning to a number of lessons is indicated in the margin.

A scanty masorah parva.

The sedarim are marked with the letter samekh in the margin.

Some masoretic notes are added with a later hand.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square script, punctuated, of the 15 to 16th century.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Hagiographa With Arabic Vers. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2374.'

History

Origin: 1475-1524 4th quarter of the 15th - 1st quarter of the 16th century Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an 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.

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2374 (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. 149.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL