University of Pennsylvania, Halper 55
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS25671
- Shelfmark:
- Halper 55
- Title:
- Judeo-Arabic commentary on 1st Samuel, 25:30-27:10; 2nd Samuel 12:14-13:6
- Place:
- Orient
- Date:
- 11th century-12th century?
- Language:
- Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew
- Material:
- complete; some places faded and stained
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 2 fols. (bifolium: recto=1r|2v; verso=2r|1v): complete; some places faded and stained
- Note:
- Hebrew lead-phrase is vocalized and in relatively squared characters; the end of an article is signified by a sof pasuḳ and spaces of various width.
The author provides Arabic translation of the verses upon which he comments, but, unlike the translation-commentary of Japheth ben ʻAli, this commentary is more cursory, and does not cover the entire text.
Fol. 1 contains articles on I Sam. XXV 30,33, 39, 44, XXVI 7,8,10, 14,15,19,20 and XVII 10. Fol. 2 contains articles on II Sam. XII 14, 15, 17, 19, 22, 30, 31, XIII 2,4,6. Much of the notes are philological.
It is not likely to be ʻAli ben Israel (ms. Petersburg RNL Evr.- Arab I 3361, missing I Sam. XXIII-XXVIII) whose articles are more intensive. Comparable to the commentary on Samuel found in Oxford Bodleian Heb. e.76 fols. 41/42 (Cowely 2861, 14).
In three instances here, the end of a sidra is signified in the margins with a ס, one between I Sam. XXV 30/33, one before XXVII 10 and one before II Sam.XII 14.
There is no graphic demarcation in the commentary itself at any of these junctures, which indicates that the ס׳s are probably from a secondary hand.
Beneath the latter two, this hand also records the beginning of verse after the precise sidra break. These match all the sidra breaks signified in the Aleppo Codex.
The divine name is presented: יוָי as is common in Karaite works
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
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- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940417503503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3j679f7m/manifest
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