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Or 2525

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032-003314009
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Or 2525
Title:
Collection of abstracts 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:
110 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2525 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1200
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1200-1399
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
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 2525

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

Contents

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

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-110v
Title: Kitāb al-anwār wa-l-maraḳib
Title: כתאב אלאנואר ואלמראקב

Contains the compendia of Maḳalah vi-xii.

Filiation: Cf. the contents of Or 2524 and 2526.
Author: Qirqisānī, Yaʻqūb ibn Isḥāq אלקרקסאני, אבו יוסף יעקוב قرقساني، أبو يوسف يعقوب

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 13th to 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 110 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 180 × 130 mm.
Dimensions (written): 150 × 110 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of originally 10 leaves each.

Leaves on guards.

Condition

Worming (leaves inlaid before rebinding).

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 17 21

Written lines: 17 21

Uniform layout.

Some marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Oriental (Karaite) script of 13th to 14th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Abstract on Sefer Mitsvoth. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2525.'

History

Origin: 13th-14th 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 [111v].

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_2525 (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. 588.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL