Detailed record for Oriental 2373


Title		A portion of the Hagiographa with masorah magna and parva
Origin		Yemen
Date		13th century
Language		Hebrew
Script		Oriental square script with superlinear punctuation
Decoration		Full page drawing, in colours (f.114). 5 geometrical decorations at the beginning or at the end of certain biblical books, in colours (ff. 2, 65v, 91, 113v, 122v). Numerous marginal decorations at the beginning of chapters, in red and brown ink.
Dimensions in mm		320 x 245 (210 x 170)
Official foliation		ff. 125 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end)
Collation		Originally mostly quires of 10 leaves.
Form		Parchment codex
Binding		BM/BL in-house.
Provenance		Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 23 July 1881: inscribed (f. [126v]).
Notes		Incomplete at the beginning and at the end. Ruling and pricking are visible. Numerous lacunae.
Select 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), I, no. 142. Bezalel Narkiss, Illuminations from Hebrew Bibles of Leningrad (Jerusalem: The Bialik Institute, 1990), pp. 74-75.

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