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Or 2387

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Or 2387
Title:
Judeo-Arabic biblical commentary
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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297 folios
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Languages:
Judeo-Arabic
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Start Date:
1513
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1513
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1513
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Seleucid
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Names:
Avraham ben Gershon
Avraham ben Shelomoh
Me῾oded ben Yosef ben Sa῾adyah ben Yosef ben Shelomoh ben Natana᾿el
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
אברהם בן שלמה
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Or 2387

Judeo-Arabic biblical commentary

Contents

A Judeo-Arabic commentary on Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings by Avraham ben Shelomoh.

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-297v
Title: Perush ha-Tanakh
Title: פרוש התנ"ך
Author: Avraham ben Shelomoh אברהם בן שלמה
Colophon: ממה שנכתב בשם החבר הטוב. הדומה לעץ רטוב. אלהים ינחילו ארץ הטוב. כן יאמר האל הטוב. סעדיה בן מעודד בן דוד ידיע באלסבאר אלהים יזכהו להגות בעניניו ולגלות כל מצפוניו הוא וזרעו וזרע זרעו כדכת' לא ימוש ספר התורה הזה מפיך והגית בו יומם ולילה. וכת' ואני זאת בריתי אתם אמ' ה' לא ימושו מפיך ומפי זרעך ומפי זרע זרעך אמ' ה' מעתה ועד עולם. והכותב מעודד בן יוסף בן סעדיה בן יוסף בן שלמה בן נתנאל ידיע באבן חסאן קודשא בריך הוא ימחול לי על כל מה ששגיתי וטעיתי ונסתר מעיני כדכת' שגיאות מי יבין מנסתרות נקיני. וכתב בעיר אלגראגי שתתקיים לישראל דבגוה עד עדן דתתבני קרתא קדישתא ירושלם אמן נצח סלה. וכאן אלפראג' מן נסכה בחדש כסלו שלשנת אלפא ותמני מאה ועסרין וחמיש שנין לשטרות. אלהים יחיש הקץ וימהר הגאולה. בקרוב בעגלא. אמן נצח סלה. f. 297r
Filiation: [Neubauer_1891] 2488
ff. 1r-19v
Title: Joshua

Missing the whole of chapters 1 to 6, patrs of chapter 7 and most of the chapters 12-14.

ff. 19v-72v
Title: Judges
ff. 72v-247v
Title: Samuel
ff. 247v-297r
Title: Kings

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 297 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 249 × 190 mm.
Dimensions (written): 197 × 127 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

Condition

Imperfect at the beginning.

Extensive lacuna after folio 5.

A few folios damaged at the beginning and at the end.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 27

Written lines: 27

Uniform layout.

Ruled with a mastara.

Catchwords on every verso.

Hand(s)

Yemenite semi-cursive script, unpunctuated, of the 16th century. Me῾oded ben Yosef ben Sa῾adyah ben Yosef ben Shelomoh ben Natana᾿el, inscribed with his name in the colophon, folio 297r.

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Abraham ben Shlomoh. Commentary on the Former Prophets. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2387.'

History

Origin: 1513 Yemen (Al-garish?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Avraham ben Gershon, his name inscribed with a date of Elul 1842 (1531), folio 296v.

1881-07-23

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 23 July 1881, folio [298v].

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_2387 (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. 226.

Bibliography

    [Neubauer_1891] Neubauer, Adolf. 'Petite Grammaire Hébraïque Provenant de Yemen, Texte Arabe Publíe d’après Les Manuscrits Connus'. Leipzig: O. Harrassowitz, 1891.

Funding of Cataloguing

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