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Or 2386

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Or 2386
Title:
Commentary on the Pentateuch
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
137 folios
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Languages:
Arabic
Hebrew
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Arabic
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 2386

Commentary on the Pentateuch

Contents

A commentary on the Pentateuch in Arabic and Hebrew.

Language(s): Hebrew, Arabic

ff. 1r-137v
Title: Perush ha-Torah
Title: פרוש התורה

Begins with the pericope Lekh lekha (Exodus 12:1-17:27).

The main commentary breaks off in the middle of pericope Eḳev.

ff. 27r-61v
Title: Exodus
ff. 61v-106r
Title: Leviticus
ff. 106r-129r
Title: Numbers
ff. 129r-137v
Title: Deuteronomy

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 137 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 298 × 193 mm.
Dimensions (written): 238 × 146 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of mostly 6 leaves each.

Catchwords on every verso.

Condition

Imperfect at the beginning and at the end.

Lacunae after folios: 8, 27, 40, 41, 125, 128.

Folio 107 is mostly blank.

Considerable water-damage at the top of the pages.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 33 34

Written lines: 33 34

Ruled with a mastara.

A number of marginal notes.

Folio 8r contains a diagram with the names of patriarchs.

Hand(s)

Yemenite semi-cursive script, unpunctuated, of the 16th century.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Commentary on the Pentateuch. Arabic & Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2386.'

History

Origin: 1500-1599 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.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2386 (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. 242.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL