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Or 8659

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Or 8659
Title:
Judeo-Persian fragment
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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:
10 folios (i+10+ii)
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Judeo-Persian
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Start Date:
0900
End Date:
1299
Date Range:
0900-1299
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CE
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Or 8659

Judeo-Persian fragment

Contents

A fragment of a polemical tract on the prophethood of Moses and the Jewish religion (ff. 2r-9v).

Language(s): Judeo-Persian, Hebrew

ff. 1r-10v
Title: Fragment of a polemical tract
Incipit: אגרת פורסד כו אז צי בי שנאסי כו נביאי בוד f. 2r

Possibly a fragment of a Sefer ha-Mitsṿot (Book of Precepts), probably part of the introduction (Meredith-Owens).

According to the National Library of Israel's catalogue, it is a fragment of a commentary on the Book of Joshua in Judeo-Persian.

F. 10 followed by f. 1: an exposition on the commandment of circumcision beginning in Hebrew: ברוך שהוא היה והוא יש והוא יהיה.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 10th-13th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Yellowish Oriental paper, without laid lines and chain lines.
Extent: 10 folios (i+10+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 168 × 131 mm.
Dimensions (written): 130 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Incorrectly bound: f. 1 should come after f. 10 (see MacKenzie, p. 249).

Collation

No catchwords.

Condition

Worming, tears, water damage. Leaves have been repaired, some with silk gauze.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 13

Written lines: 13

Uniform layout.

Left margins are not justified.

Ruling in hard point is visible.

Hand(s)

Persian Hebrew square script of the 10th-13th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Title on spine: 'Commentary on Joshua. Persian. Brit. Mus. Oriental 8659.'

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 0900-1299 10th-13th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Acquisition note on back flyleaf (ii)v: 'Bought of Dr. A. S. Yahuda. 24 July, 1920.'; date of accession 29 July 1920.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and volume IV of Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_8659 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Meredith-Owens, G. M., Handlist of Persian Manuscripts 1895-1966 (London: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1968), p. 41.
    MacKenzie, David Neil, "An Early Jewish-Persian Argument," Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 31, no. 2 (1968), pp. 249-269, esp. 249. Includes transliteration and translation.
    G. Lazard, "Le judéo-persan ancien entre le pehlevi et le persan," in Ph. Gignoux (ed.), Transition Periods in Iranian History: actes du Symposium de Fribourg-en-Brisgau (Leuven: Association pour l'avancement des études iraniennes, 1987), pp. 167-168. [The article was reprinted in G. Lzarad, La formation de la langue persane (Paris: Peeters, 1995)].

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