MS. Heb. f. 40
Contents
Fol. 1
A chronicle in Arabic, from the creation to the year 4919 A.M. = 1470 Sel. = 553 A.H. = 1159 A.D., divided into seven sections.The last leaf contains the chronology from Adam to the captivity. See Med. Jew. Chron., ii (1895), p. x sq.
Language(s): Judeo-Arabic
Physical Description
Syr. Rabb. char. (end of the twelfth or beg. of the thirteenth century); 12mo, paper (first leaf injured).
Ff. 51.
History
Origin: End of the twelfth or beg. of the thirteenth century.
Provenance and Acquisition
Bought from Wertheimer, 1892 (from the Genizah).
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, vol. ii, by Adolf Neubauer and Arthur Ernest Cowley, Oxford 1906, No. 2804.
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