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Or 2524

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032-003314008
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Or 2524
Title:
Collection of fragments of Al-Qirqisānī's Kitāb al-anwār
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
100 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2524 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Arabic
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Arabic
Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1300-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
Qirqisānī, Yaʻqūb ibn Isḥāq, 0900-0999
Qirqisānī, Yaʻqūb ibn Isḥāq, 0900-0999
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2524

Collection of fragments of Al-Qirqisānī's Kitāb al-anwār

Contents

A collection of fragments of Al-Qirqisānī's Kitāb al-anwār.

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic, Arabic

ff. 1r-100v
Title: Kitāb al-anwār wa-l-maraḳib
Title: כתאב אלאנואר ואלמראקב

Folios 1r-68v contain the greater part of Maḳalah iii of the work; folios 69r-88v contain a smaller fragment of Maḳalah iii (parts of chapter v-vii); folios 89r-94v contain a part of the index of Maḳalah iii and chapters i-ii (in Arabic); folios 95r-100v contain a small fragment of Maḳalah vi.

Filiation: Cf. the contents of Or 2525.
Author: Qirqisānī, Yaʻqūb ibn Isḥāq אלקרקסאני, אבו יוסף יעקוב قرقساني، أبو يوسف يعقوب

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 14th to 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 100 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 200 × 140 mm.
Dimensions (written): 170 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Leaves on guards.

Condition

Ink corrosion.

Repaired before rebinding.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 15 24

Written lines: 15 24

Uniform layout.

Some marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Oriental (Karaite) square script of 14th to 15th century, and Arabic script of 12th to 13th century (folios 89-94).

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Karaite Tract. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2524.'

History

Origin: 14th-15th century ; Iraq?

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Wilhelm Shapira: (b. 1830, d. 1884), antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum on 08 July 1882: inscribed, folio [102v].

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_2524 (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. 584.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL