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Or 2528

Record Id:
032-003313070
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TEI
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Or 2528
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:
99 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2528 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Arabic
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Arabic
Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1300-1899
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Avraham ben Eliyahu ben Se῾adyah
Israel ben Samuel ha-Dayan ha-Ma῾aravi
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
Mosheh ben Eliyahu ben Se῾adyah
ישראל בן שמואל הדיין המערבי
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Or 2528

Collection of Karaite legal treatises

Contents

A collection of Karaite legal treatises.

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 14th to 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 99 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Hand(s)

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'Rules of Shechitah. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2528.'

History

Origin: 14th-19th century

Provenance and Acquisition

1882-07-08

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 08 July 1882, inscribed (folio [100v]).

I

Contents

ff. 6r-15v
Title: The rules of sheḥiṭah
Colophon: כתבתי אני בידי הע' [...] יוסף לוי [...] בן אברהם לוי נ"י וכו'. נשלמה יום שני בשבוע והוא שלשה ועשרים יום מחדש כסליו שנת התקצב ליצירה. f. 15r

Physical Description

Paper leaves, of 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
1-15
Dimensions (leaf): 170 × 120 mm.
Dimensions (written): 140 × 95 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 1-15.

Condition

Incomplete.

On guards.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 20

Written lines: 20

Catchowrds on every page.

Some passages written in red ink.

Hand(s)

Semi-cursive script of the 19th century.

History

Origin: 1832

II

Contents

ff. 16r-32v
Title: The six articles of faith
Author: Israel ben Samuel ha-Dayan ha-Ma῾aravi ישראל בן שמואל הדיין המערבי

A duplicate of the contents given under no. 1, slightly defective at the beginning.

Physical Description

Paper leaves, of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 17 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 180 × 120 mm.
Dimensions (written): 150 × 95 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 16-32.

Condition

Much damaged. On guards.

Incomplete.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 18 20

Written lines: 18 20

Catchwords on every verso.

Section titles given in larger characters.

Hand(s)

Semi-cursive script of the 19th century.

History

Origin:

Provenance

Mosheh ben Eliyahu ben Se῾adyah: inscribed in a note, dated 5608 (1848), folio 31r. Similarly, Avraham ben Eliyahu ben Se῾adyah: inscribed in a note, folio 31v.

Folio 32r contains a transcription of French numerals in the Hebrew characters.

III

Contents

ff. 33r-87v
Title: A treatise on sheḥiṭah

Portions of an extensive work on sheḥiṭah. Folio 33 contains a part of chapter 7, chapters 13-20, 28-29, 38-47 are preserved entirely, and of chapters 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 30, 37, 48 and 49 only portions are extant.

The last leaf may possibly belong to a different manuscript.

Physical Description

Paper leaves, of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 55 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 200 × 135 mm.
Dimensions (written): 145 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 33-87.

Condition

Slightly damaged.

Imperfect at the beginning and end.

Gaps after folios: 33, 39, 63, 64, 65, 70, 75, 85, 86.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 16 18

Written lines: 16 18

Visible mastara ruling.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive script of the 15th century.

History

Origin: 15th century

IV

Contents

ff. 88r-93v
Title: A treatise on sheḥiṭah

A fragment of the same work as in the preceding part, containing the end of chapter 6, the whole chapter 7 (cf. folio 33 of this manuscript) and 8, and part of chapter 9.

Physical Description

Paper leaves, of the 14th to 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 6 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 197 × 130 mm.
Dimensions (written): 145 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 88-93.

Condition

Much damaged.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 15

Written lines: 15

Uniform layout.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive of the 14th to 15th century.

History

Origin: 14th-15th century

V

Contents

ff. 94r-99v
Title: A treatise on sheḥiṭah

Three fragments of another treatise on the same subject as in the preceding part.

Physical Description

Paper leaves, of the 15th to 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 6 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 180 × 130 mm.
Dimensions (written): 140 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 94-99.

Condition

Much damaged.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 14

Written lines: 14

Uniform layout.

Visible mastara ruling.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive of the 15th to 16th century.

History

Origin: 15th-16th century

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_2528 (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. 599.

Funding of Cataloguing

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