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Or 5064

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Or 5064
Title:
Kitab al-murshid by Samuel ben Moses, al-Maghribī
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
232 folios
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Languages:
Judeo-Arabic
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1510
End Date:
1510
Date Range:
1510
Calendar:
Seleucid
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Fischl Hirsch
Samuel ben Moses, al-Maghribī, fl 15th century,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000067013202,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/79254468,
Samuel ben Moses, al-Maghribī, fl 15th century,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000067013202,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/79254468,
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 5064

Kitab al-murshid by Samuel ben Moses, al-Maghribī

Contents

The book of precepts.

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-232v
Title: Kitab al-murshid
Title: כתאב אלמרשד

Maḳalah I begins on folio 2v; Maḳalah II, folio 5v; Maḳalah III, folio 16v; Maḳalah IV, folio 25v; Maḳalah V, folio 48r; Maḳalah VI, folio 90v; Maḳalah VII, folio 124r; Maḳalah VIII, folio 135r; Maḳalah IX, folio 169v; Maḳalah X, folio 190r;Maḳalah XI, folio 206r; Maḳalah XII, folio 219r.

Author: Samuel ben Moses, al-Maghribī שמואל בן משה, הרופא, המערבי
Colophon: נשלם כתבת זה הספר ביום רביעי בשבוע והוא יום ארבעה ימים מחדש אדר שנת אלף ושמונה מאות ואחד ועשרים שנים למספר יונים בעיר אלקאהרה הסמוכה לצוען מצרים אלמואפק לשהור אלערב שהר די אלקעדה אלחראם סנה כמסה עשר ותסע מאיה ל[יש?]מעאל. f. 231r

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 232 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 182 × 134 mm.
Dimensions (written): 143 × 106 mm.
Foliation:

232 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each, numbered with Hebrew letters at the end and with both Hebrew letters and Arabic numerals at the beginning.

Condition

Leaves missing after folio 29, 69, 71, 73, 77, 98, 104, 124, 150, 186, 228.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 27

Written lines: 27

Uniform layout.

Last line written outside ruling.

Visible mastara ruling.

Larger initial words and titles in red ink.

Folios 231v and 232r are decorated, containing each a gilded sphere within a square in blue.

Folio 1r is an ornamental title page.

Folio 231r contains an ornamented colophon.

Ornamented section markers, e.g., folio 25v.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive and square script of the 16th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Samuel Al-Maghrebi. Sefer Ham-Miswoth. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 5064.'

History

Origin: 1510 Egypt (Cairo, Fustat)

Provenance and Acquisition

Fischl Hirsch: purchased by the British Museum from him on 16 July 1896: inscribed, back flyleaf (i)v.

1896-07-16

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_5064 (digital images currently unavailable)

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), no. 1108.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL