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Or 2398

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Or 2398
Title:
Abu al-Faraj Furḳan's Commentary on parashiyot Be-shalaḥ, Yitro and Mishpaṭim
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
270 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1200
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1200-1399
Era:
CE
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Names:
Jeshua ben Judah, 1000-1099
Jeshua ben Judah, 1000-1099
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
Mosheh Firūz Ḳara᾿i
Yosef ben Mosheh
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Or 2398

Abu al-Faraj Furḳan's Commentary on parashiyot Be-shalaḥ, Yitro and Mishpaṭim

Contents

An Arabic commentary on the weekly sections Be-shalaḥ, Yitro and Mishpaṭim (Exodus 13:17-24:18).

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew

ff. 1r-270v
Title: Perush Shemot
Title: פרוש שמות

The unpointed Hebrew text of chapters 13:17-14:5, 14:29-15:19, 15:22-20:26, 21:12-24:18 is embodied.

Each Hebrew verse is followed by an Arabic translation.

Filiation: The contents of this volume agree with the corresponding portions of [BL] Or 2545 (Margoliouth, no. 311).
Author: Abu al-Faraj Furḳan, active 11th century, Yeshuʻah ben Yehudah ישועה בן יהודה
Incipit: בשם י'י נע' ונצ' פראשה מקדמה לאמר לאסורים צאו וכו'. f. 2r

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 13th to 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 270 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 212 × 140 mm.
Dimensions (written): 170 × 85/90 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Originally 32 quires of 10 leaves each, with exception of 8th and 9th which have 11 and 8 leaves respectively).

Signatures in Hebrew letters on the left-hand upper corner of the first page of a quire are found on folios 63r, 74r, 82r, 92r, 102r, 112r, 122r, 142r, 152r.

Condition

Lacunae after folios: 12, 21, 31, 45, 48, 61, 115.

Imperfect at the beginning and at the end. Lacunae after folios 3 and 6, and quires 17-20 are entirely lost.

Stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 19

Written lines: 19

The unpointed Hebrew text is embodied.

Has many marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Square and semi-cursive script of 13 to 14th century.

Additions:

Folios 270r-270v - contains doodles, magical squares, etc.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Caraite Commentary on Exodus. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2398.'

History

Origin: 1200-1399 13th-14th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Yosef ben Mosheh: inscribed, folio 1v.

Mosheh Firūz Ḳara᾿i: inscribed, folio 1r.

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_2398 (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. 313.

Bibliography

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Funding of Cataloguing

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