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Or 11643

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Or 11643
Title:
Song of Songs
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
50 folios (i+50+i)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1800
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1800-1899
Era:
CE
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 11643

Song of Songs

Contents

The Song of Songs with Targum and Arabic translation.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-50r
Title: כתובים (שיר השירים)
Title: Ketuvim (Shir ha-Shirim)
Incipit: בס"ד - שיר השירים אשר לישלמה

Each verse is followed by the Aramaic translation and the Arabic translation of the Aramaic translation.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines.
Extent: 50 folios (i+50+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 163 × 109 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Catchword on every page.

Condition

Usage stains, iron gall ink corrosion.

F. 1 is damaged, the lower half is missing, loss of text.

Layout

Columns:1

Hebrew is in larger characters and vocalised; Aramaic is in smaller characters and vocalised; Judeo-Arabic is also in smaller characters and not vocalised.

Hand(s)

Oriental Hebrew square script of the 19th century; partially vocalised.

Additions:

F. 8 is a smaller, different kind of paper (without laid lines and chain lines), written by a different hand; perhaps later added later to complete the text.

Binding

BM in-house.

Title on spine: 'Song of Solomon. Heb., Targum & Jud.-Arab. Brit. Mus. OR. 11,643'.

History

Origin: 1800-1899 19th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought of AS Yehudah on 12 November 1937; date of accession 21 January 1938.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and the Catalogue of Hebrew Manuscripts in the Gaster Collection, the British Library, London; preface by Brad Sabin Hill; reproduced from the MS and typescript blue-slips prepared by Jacob Leeven, Joseph Rosenwasser and David Goldstein (London: Hebrew Section. Oriental and India Office Collection, 1996) (unpublished copy is available in the AAS reading room).

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Funding of Cataloguing

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