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Or 4854

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Or 4854
Title:
Ḥizuḳ emunah by Isaac ben Abraham Troki
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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:
84 (i+84+i)
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Languages:
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Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1600-1799
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Rev. S. B. Frankel
Troki, Isaac ben Abraham, 1533-1594,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/67288238
Troki, Isaac ben Abraham, 1533-1594,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/67288238
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 4854

Ḥizuḳ emunah by Isaac ben Abraham Troki

Contents

A Karaite polemical work.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-84v
Title: Ḥizuḳ emunah
Title: חזוק אמונה

The manuscript contains only the preface, table of contents, chapters 1-38 and fragments of chapter 39 of part 1 of the work. The contents of ff. 66v and 67r overlap slightly.

Author: Troki, Isaac ben Abraham יצחק בן אברהם, מטרוקי

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th to 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 84 (i+84+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 190 × 170 mm.
Dimensions (written): 160 × 130 mm.
Foliation:

84 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

Condition

Imperfect at the end.

Slight damp entry at foot in earlier part and at head towards end.

Foxing at edges.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 23 26

Written lines: 23 26

Uniform layout.

Visible hard-point ruling.

Catchwords on every page.

Larger square initials and titles.

Hand(s)

Italian cursive scripts of the 17th to 18th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Isaac Froki. Hizzuk Emunah. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Or. 4854.'

History

Origin: 17th-18th century ; Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Rev. S. B. Frankel: purchased by the British Museum from him on 19 January 1895: inscribed, flyleaf ｢ii｣v.

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_4854 (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. 1107.

Funding of Cataloguing

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