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Detailed record for Oriental 2540
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| Title |
Fragments from Exodus (1:1-8:5) |
| Origin |
Palestine or Egypt |
| Date |
10th century |
| Language |
Hebrew in Arabic characters |
| Script |
Arabic Naskhi script |
| Decoration |
2 carpet pages in gold, red, and brown (ff. 2v, 3). Numerous space fillers in colours and gold. |
| Dimensions in mm |
235 x 175 (165 x 125) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 21 (+ 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end) |
| Collation |
Indeterminable. |
| Form |
Paper codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. |
| Provenance |
K. B. No. 1: inscribed (f. 1).
Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 8 July 1882: inscribed (f. [22v]). |
| 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. 104.
Bezalel Narkiss, Illuminations from Hebrew Bibles of Leningrad (Jerusalem: The Bialik Institute, 1990), p. 38.
Ilana Tahan, 'Karaite Book of Exodus', in In the Beginning: Bibles before the Year 1000 edited by Michelle P. Brown (Washington, D.C. : Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 2006.), p. 273.
Ilana Tahan, Hebrew Manuscripts: The Power of Script and Image (London, British Library, 2007), pp. 14-17. |
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f. 1
Flyleaf |
f. 1v
Flyleaf |
f. 2
Blank folio |
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f. 2v
Carpet page |
ff. 2v-3
Carpet pages |
f. 3
Carpet page |
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f. 3v
Text page |
f. 4
Embellished space filler |
f. 4v
Text page |
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f. 5
Text page |
f. 5v
Space filler |
f. 6
Text page |
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f. 6v
Text page |
f. 7
Space filler |
f. 7v
Space filler |
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f. 8
Text page |
f. 8v
Text page |
f. 9
Text page |
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f. 9v
Text page |
f. 10
Text page |
f. 10v
Text page |
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f. 11
Text page |
f. 11v
Text page |
f. 12
Text page |
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f. 12v
Text page |
f. 13
Text page |
f. 13v
Text page |
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f. 14
Text page |
f. 14v
Text page |
f. 15
Text page |
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f. 15v
Embellished space fillers |
f. 16
Text page |
f. 16v
Text page |
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f. 17
Text page |
f. 17v
Text page |
f. 18
Embellished space fillers |
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f. 18v
Embellished space filler |
ff. 18v-19
Text pages |
f. 19
Embellished space filler |
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f. 19v
Text page |
f. 20
Embellished space filler |
f. 20v
Text page |
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f. 21
Embellished space filler |
f. 21v
Text page |
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