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Or 2560

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Or 2560
Title:
Commentary
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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:
96 folios
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Languages:
Arabic
Hebrew
Scripts:
Arabic
Hebrew
Start Date:
1200
End Date:
1299
Date Range:
1200-1299
Era:
CE
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Names:
Jeshua ben Judah, 1000-1099
Jeshua ben Judah, 1000-1099
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
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Or 2560

Commentary

Contents

An Arabic commentary on Numbers.

Language(s): Arabic, Hebrew

ff. 1r-96v
Title: Perush Be-midbar
Title: פרוש במדבר

Fragment of an Arabic commentary on Numbers 19:4-23:16.

Includes a translation of the Hebrew text, being probably part of the shorter recension of Abu al-Faraj Furḳan's Commentary on the Pentateuch.

The longer recension of the commentary is quoted on chapters 19:15, 16, 22 and 21:17, folios 34v, 37v, 42v, 62v.

Quotes several Karaite authorities.

The Arabic translation is arranged in the following sections: chapters 20:1-13, 14-21, 20:22-21:3, 21:4-20, 21:21-22:1, 22:2-23:12.

Author: Abu al-Faraj Furḳan, active 11th century ישועה בן יהודה
Filiation: The translation of chapters 21:18-22, folios 57r and 63v, agrees with [BL] Or 2491 (Margoliouth, no. 93), folio 32r.

Physical Description

Paper codex of probably 13th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 96 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 180 × 135/160 mm.
Dimensions (written): 135 × 95/110 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Originally 11 quires of 10 leaves each, imperfect at the beginning and at the end.

Signatures in Arabic words on the left-hand upper corner of the first page of a quire.

The original numbering of quires 4-10 was 3-9.

Condition

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

Imperfect at the beginning and at the end. Lacuna after folio 95.

Stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 14 22

Written lines: 14 22

14 to 15 lines a page on folios 1-18 and 89-90, and 20 to 22 on folios 19-88.

Biblical text in Hebrew characters is embodied.

Hand(s)

A cursive Naskhi hand, of probably 13th century.

ff. 1r-18v
and
ff. 89r-96v
have been supplied by a different hand of about the same date.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Commentary on Numbers. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2560.'

History

Origin: 1200-1299 13th century

Provenance and Acquisition

1882-07-08

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 08 July 1882: 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_2560 (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. 316.

Bibliography

    [BL] BL = British Library shelfmark

Funding of Cataloguing

BL