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Or 2376
Title:
Hagiographa
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
154 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1500-1599
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 2376

Hagiographa

Contents

The Hagiographa, provided with vowel-points and accents, masorah magna and parva.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-154r
Title: Ketuvim
Title: כתובים

The first book of the codex, which must have been the book of Ruth, is now missing.

f. 42v, 58v Small ornamental pen and ink designs at the end of the book of Psalms and Job.

ff. 1r-42v
Title: Psalms
ff. 42v-58v
Title: Job
ff. 58v-71r
Title: Proverbs
ff. 71v-76r
Title: Ecclesiastes
ff. 76r-78r
Title: Song of Songs
ff. 78r-80v
Title: Lamentations
ff. 80v-91r
Title: Daniel
ff. 91r-96r
Title: Esther
ff. 96v-112v
Title: Ezra

Nehemiah starts on folio 103r.

ff. 112v-154r
Title: Chronicles

2Chronicles begins on folio 131r.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th to 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 154 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 295 × 195 mm.
Dimensions (written): 270 × 150 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Originally upwards of 18 quires of 8 leaves each.

The quires are signed with Hebrew letters on the first and last pages, and with Arabic words on the first page.

Catchwords present throughout.

Condition

Several larger lacunae. The first quire is lost and the last quire is imperfect.

Folia 1-4 and 141-154 supply the defects.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 24 26

Written lines: 24 26

Uniform layout.

Masorah magna in one line in the upper and up to four lines in the lower margin. In the resteored part of the manuscript there is no masorah.

The number of verses and siman stated at the end of each book, except of Chronicles.

The beginning of sedarim indicated in the margin with an ornamental samekh.

Visible mastara ruling.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square script, punctuated, of 16th century.

ff. 1-4
,
ff. 141-154
due to later, 17th century hand. No punctuation.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

History

Origin: 1500-1599 16th century Yemen

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, folio [155v].

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_2376 (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. 152.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL