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Or 2576

Record Id:
032-003313066
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032-003313066
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Or 2576
Title:
Collection of Karaite legal treatises
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
68 folios (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end).
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2576 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Arabic
Hebrew
Scripts:
Arabic
Hebrew
Start Date:
1000
End Date:
1099
Date Range:
1000-1099
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Baṣīr, Joseph ben Abraham, philosopher and theologian, 1000-1099
Baṣīr, Joseph ben Abraham, philosopher and theologian, 1000-1099
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2576

Collection of Karaite legal treatises

Contents

A collection of Karaite legal treatises.

Language(s): Arabic, Hebrew

Physical Description

Composite paper codex of the 11th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 68 folios (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end).

Hand(s)

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'Karaite Treatises. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Or. 2576.'

History

Origin: 11th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 08 July 1882: inscribed, back flyleaf (i)v.

I

Contents

ff. 1r-15v
Title: The laws of inheritance
Author: Baṣīr, Joseph ben Abraham, ha-Kohen ha-Roʾeh יוסף בן אברהם, הרואה

Hebrew quotations are also in Arabic characters.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
1-15
Dimensions (leaf): 182 × 140 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 1-15.

Condition

Damaged.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 16 19

Written lines: 16 19

Uniform layout.

Hand(s)

Arabic script of the 11th century.

History

Origin: 1019

II

Contents

ff. 16r-56v
Title: A Karaite commentary

Contains a part of chapter 5, the whole of chapters 6-9, and a part of chapter 10 of the larger treatise.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 40 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 185 × 140 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 16-56.

Condition

Much damaged. Inlaid in sheets of tracing paper.

Largely worm-eaten.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 16

Written lines: 16

Unifrom layout.

Hand(s)

Arabic script of the 11th century.

History

Origin:

III

Contents

ff. 57r-68v
Title: A treatise on the new moon

The verses commented upon are Genesis 1:14-17. The work was composed in Sha῾ban, in 409 (1017/1018 CE). Hebrew quotations are also in Arabic characters.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 12 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 180 × 140 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 57-68.

Collation

Folios 57r and 67r (left-hand upper corner) are marked with Arabic words, indicating the beginning of a new quire.

Condition

More or less damaged.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 15 17

Written lines: 15 17

Uniform layout.

Hand(s)

Arabic script of the 11th century.

History

Origin: 1027

Additional Information

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_2576 (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. 591.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL