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Or 2523

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Or 2523
Title:
Karaite polemical works
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
88 folios
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Languages:
Judeo-Arabic
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1300-1399
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2523

Karaite polemical works

Contents

Two Karaite polemical works.

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-46v
Title: Ṿikuaḥ neged ha-shomronim
Title: ויכוח נגד השומרונים

A fragment of a polemical treatise against the Samaritans on the subject of Mount Gerizim.

ff. 47r-88v
Title: ῾Al ha-aviv ve-nos᾿im aherim
Title: על האביב ונושאים אחרים

A fragment of a treatise on aviv and other topics, probably written by a resident of Jerusalem (see folio 86r).

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 88 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 200 × 140 mm.
Dimensions (written): 160 × 105 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

9 quires of mostly 10 leaves each, signed with Hebrew letters on the first page of a quire (mostly not preserved).

Condition

Damp entry at edges, sometimes affecting a large part of leaf.

Worming, with damages only partly infilled.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 25 26

Written lines: 25 26

Uniform layout.

Visible hard point ruling.

Some additional notes in margin.

Hand(s)

Oriental square script of the 14th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Karaite Tracts. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2523.'

History

Origin: 14th century ; Palestine?

Provenance and Acquisition

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

1882-07-08

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_2523 (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. 1098.

Funding of Cataloguing

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