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Or 13191

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032-003432218
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Or 13191
Title:
Shāhzādah o Tsūfī by Elishaʿ ben Shemuʾel
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
62 folios (i+62+i)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_13191 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Judeo-Persian
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1883
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1883-1899
Era:
CE
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Names:
Elishaʿ ben Shemuʾel, fl 17th century
Elishaʿ ben Shemuʾel, fl 17th century
Ibn Ḥasdai, Abraham ben Samuel, fl 13th century
Ibn Ḥasdai, Abraham ben Samuel, fl 13th century
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Or 13191

Shāhzādah o Tsūfī by Elishaʿ ben Shemuʾel

Contents

A didactic poem in Judeo-Persian.

Language(s): Judeo-Persian

ff. 1r-62v
Author: אלישע בן שמואל Elishaʿ ben Shemuʾel, active 17th century
Title: שאהזאדה וצופי
Title: Shāhzādah o Tsūfī

'The Prince and the Mystic'; a poem based on Abraham ben Samuel ibn Ḥasdai's Ben ha-melekh ṿeha-nazir, a 13th-century Hebrew version of the story of Barlaam and Josaphat.

Elishaʿ ben Shemuʾel was also called Rāghib.

Title on f. 2r: כיתאב שאזאדה צופי אז מערפת כה"ר מ’ אלישע בן א"א כמה"ר שמואל זצ"ל

Ff. 1r-1v: index.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper; watermark: unidentified motif and the the inscription: 'Byramji Shapoorji' and date '1883' (e.g. ff. 19, 33, 44).
Extent: 62 folios (i+62+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 206 × 155 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Catchword on every page.

Condition

Extremely brittle, fragile leaves, usage stains, water damage.

Front flyleaf has been detached from collation, in pieces.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 26

Written lines: 26

Ruling in hard point is visible.

Section headings are in larger characters, often with some ink ornament.

Hand(s)

Persian Hebrew square script of the 19th century.

Decoration

Beginning of sections decorated with two birds (e.g. ff. 2r, 15v), in ink.

Additions:

Binding

Brown leather binding; with remains of a pair of toggles. In slip case.

Title on spine: 'Shāhzādeh u Ṣūfī. Jud.-Pers. Brit. Mus. Oriental MS. 13191.'

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1883-1899 Late 19th century (not before 1883) Central Asia(?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Accession date 6 August 1969.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and Vera Basch Moreen, 'A Supplementary List of Judeao-Persian Manuscripts of the British Library', The British Library Journal 21 (1995), pp. 71-80.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_13191 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Moreen, Vera Basch, 'A Supplementary List of Judeao-Persian Manuscripts of the British Library', The British Library Journal 21 (1995), p. 72.
    Waley, M. I., Supplementary handlist of Persian manuscripts, 1966-1998 (London, 1998), p. 63.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL