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Or 2384

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Or 2384
Title:
Nur al-tsulm by Nathanael ben Isaiah
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Extent:
130 folios
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Languages:
Arabic
Hebrew
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Arabic
Hebrew
Start Date:
1328
End Date:
1328
Date Range:
1328
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CE
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Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
Nathanael ben Isaiah
נתנאל בן ישעיהו
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Or 2384

Nur al-tsulm by Nathanael ben Isaiah

Contents

Nur al-tsulm, an Arabic-Hebrew midrashic commentary on the Pentateuch by Nathanael ben Isaiah.

Language(s): Hebrew, Arabic

ff. 1r-130v
Title: Nur al-tzulm
Title: נור אלצלם
Author: Nathanael ben Isaiah נתנאל בן ישעיהו
Filiation: Cf. [BL] Or 2356 (Margoliouth, no. 360).
ff. 1r-21v
Title: Midrash on Genesis

Contains two small fragments of the commentary on Genesis: from Lekh lekha to Ṿa-yera and from Toledot to Ṿa-yishlaḥ.

Both parts include the same poetic piece, provided with the superlinear punctuation and decorated with coloured designs.

ff. 22r-130v
Title: Midrash on the Pentateuch

A large naumber of fragments containing portions of the whole work.

Exodus begins on folio 61r-73r; Leviticus - 73r-102v; Numbers - 102v-130v.

Breaks off with parashah Maṭot.

References

[Kohut_1894]

Physical Description

Paper codex of 14th and 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 130 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 235 × 180 mm.
Dimensions (written): 200 × 140 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

Condition

Imperfect at the beginning and at the end.

Lacunae after folios 8, 37, 92, 93, 96, 99, 109, 110, 111, 112.

Water-stained.

Many pages damaged with loss of text.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 22 26

Written lines: 22 26

Some catchwords preserved.

Occasional ornaments in colours, most frequent in the first part of the manuscript.

Hand(s)

Yemenite semi-cursive script of 15th century.

ff. 1r-21v
and
ff. 22r-130v
- due to two different Yemenite hands.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine title: 'Nur Uz-Zulm. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2384.'

History

Origin: 1328 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.

1881-07-23

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_2384 (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. 362.

Bibliography

    [Kohut_1894] Alexander KOHUT. 'Nūr Al-Ẓulm Wa-Miṣbaḥ Al-Ḥikam. Light of Shade and Lamp of Wisdom, Being Hebrew-Arabic Homilies Composed by Nathanel Ibn Yeshâya (1327). Described, Annotated and Abstracted by A. Kohut.', 1894.
    [BL] BL = British Library shelfmark

Funding of Cataloguing

BL