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Detailed record for Oriental 2211
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| Author |
Saadia ben Joseph (Saadia gaon) |
| Title |
The Latter Prophets with Targum Onkelos and the Arabic translation of Isaiah by Saadia ben Joseph |
| Origin |
Yemen (Sana) |
| Date |
1475 |
| Language |
Hebrew, Aramaic, Judeo-Arabic |
| Script |
Yemenite square script, Biblical text with Tiberian punctuation, Targum with Babylonian (superlinear) punctuation |
| Scribe |
Benaiah ben Saadia ben Zachariah ben Marga |
| Decoration |
Carpet pages, in colours (ff. 1v, 2). Colophon in micrographic form (f. 320). |
| Dimensions in mm |
400 x 280 (290 x 200) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 321 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end) |
| Collation |
Originally mostly quires of 10 leaves as the catchwords and the quire numbering show. Collation has been modified at a later binding though. |
| Form |
Paper codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. |
| Provenance |
Benaiahu [ben Saadia ben Zachariah ben Marga], the scribe: inscribed with his name in the colophon, Sana, 21 Adar 1789 according to the Seleucid era [1475 C.E.) (f. 320).
Abraham ben Joseph ben Saadia ben Abraham, the patron: inscribed with his name in the frontispiece and in the colophon, Sana, 1 Adar 1789 according to the Seleucid era [1475 C.E.) (ff. 1v-2, 320). |
| Select bibliography |
Richard Ettinghausen, 'Yemenite Bible Manuscripts of the XVth Century', L. A. Mayer Memorial Volume, Eretz-Israel 7 (1964), 32-39 (p. 33).
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. 138.
J. B. van Zijl, 'The British Library MS OR. 2211 of Saadia Gaon's Arabic Translation of Isaiah', Journal of Semitic Studies, 37 (1992), 57-63.
Ora Berger, 'Takhshitei halakhah ha-yehudim ba-Tzana.. .. We-omanut ha-meah ha-18', unpub.Ph.D thesis, Hebrew University at Jerusalem, 2005, pp. 228-46.
Ilana Tahan, Hebrew Manuscripts: The Power of Script and Image (London, British Library, 2007), pp. 28-29. |
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ff. 1v-2
Carpet pages |
f. 320
Colophon |
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