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Or 2535

Record Id:
032-003314012
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Or 2535
Title:
Collection of Karaite texts
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
[iii]+127+[ii]
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1600-1799
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Aharon Ḥazan ibn Ele῾azar Ḥazan
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
Shemu᾿el ha-Leṿi ben Avraham ha-Leṿi
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2535

Collection of Karaite texts

Contents

A collection of Karaite pieces of various kinds.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-127v
Title: Karaite miscellany
Title: קובץ קראי

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th and 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: [iii]+127+[ii]

Binding

BL/BM in-house.

Spine: 'Karaite Hymns. Hebrew & Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2535.'

History

Origin: 17th-18th century ; Syria?

Provenance and Acquisition

1882-07-08

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

I

Contents

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-39v
Title: Supplicatory pieces

A series of supplicatory pieces on the third pericope of Exodus.

Colophon: נכתב פה ב ירושלים עיר הקדש הר ציון אשר אהב אלהים יכונניה עד עולם סלה תובבא . כתבתי אני הצעיר . ממשפחה ומעיר . עד כה הנני אלהים . אני העבד והנבזה והזעיר . שמואל הלוי בן לאדני אבי הזקן והנכבד אברהם הלוי >תעל שכבת הטל על מלונו' אכי"ר . / וכאן אלפראג מן כתאבה הדא אלמצחף אלמבארך יום אלכמיס ח' לחדש שבט בשבוע תביאמו ותטעמו בהר נחלתך שנת ה'ת'ק'ד' ליצירה והסימן כי מעיר הקדש נקראו ועל אלהי צבאות נסמכו יצ"ש ושלום. f. 39r

Physical Description

Part of a paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 39 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 160 × 100 mm.
Dimensions (written): 120 × 75 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 1-39

Condition

Water-damaged.

Incomplete.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 18

Written lines: 18

Uniform layout.

Vocalization provided in red ink.

Catchwords on every verso.

Hand(s)

Oriental (Karaite) script of the 18th century. Shemu᾿el ha-Leṿi ben Avraham ha-Leṿi: inscribed in the colophon, folio 39r.

History

Origin: 1744

II

Contents

ff. 40r-75v
Title: Supplicatory pieces

A series of supplicatory pieces on the pericope Ḥaye Sarah, which probably belonged to the same manuscript as no. I, though the wiriting is slightly larger.

Physical Description

Part of a paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 36 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 160 × 102 mm.
Dimensions (written): 120 × 80 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 40-75

Condition

Water-damaged.

Incomplete.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 18

Written lines: 18

Uniform layout.

Vocalization provided in red ink.

Catchwords on every verso.

Hand(s)

Oriental (Karaite) script of the 18th century. Perhaps written by the same scribe as no. I above.

History

Origin:

III

Contents

ff. 76r-83v
Title: A series of pieces in Arabic

The text is provided in Hebrew characters.

Physical Description

Part of a paper codex of approximately the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 8 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 150 × 100 mm.
Dimensions (written): 125 × 90 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 76-83

Condition

Water-damaged.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 15

Written lines: 15

Uniform layout.

Catchwords on every verso.

Hand(s)

Oriental (Karaite) semi-cursive script of the 17th century.

History

Origin: 17th century

Provenance

Aharon Ḥazan ibn Ele῾azar Ḥazan: inscribed in an owner's entry, folio 76r.

IV

Contents

ff. 84r-91v
Title: Piyuṭim

Physical Description

Fragment of a paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 8 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 155 × 100 mm.
Dimensions (written): 125 × 85 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 84-91

Condition

Stained.

Ink fading.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 15

Written lines: 15

Catchwords on every verso.

Hand(s)

Oriental (Karaite) semi-cursive script of the 17th century.

History

Origin: 18th century

V

Contents

ff. 92r-97v
Title: Biblical stories

Two portions of the history of a saint named Joseph and a fragment of the early biblical history.

Physical Description

Fragment of a paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 17 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 160 × 105 mm.
Dimensions (written): 120 × 75 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 92-97

Condition

Stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 15

Written lines: 15

Uniform layout.

Catchwords on every verso.

Hand(s)

Oriental (Karaite) semi-cursive script of the 18th century.

History

Origin: 18th century

VI

Contents

ff. 98r-103v
Title: Two pieces

The text is much incomplete. Several biblical persons are mentioned.

Physical Description

Fragment of a paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 6 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 165 × 110 mm.
Dimensions (written): 125 × 80 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 98-103

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 16

Written lines: 16

Written partly in black and partly in red ink.

Catchwords are given on every verso.

Hand(s)

Oriental (Karaite) semi-cursive script of the 17th century.

History

Origin: 17th century

VII

Contents

ff. 104r-106v
Title: Three fragments

The first fragment is written in Hebrew and Arabic, while the second only in Arabic (in Hebrew characters). Parts of the biblical story of Abraham are treated in the third piece.

Physical Description

Fragment of a paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 3 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 165 × 106 mm.
Dimensions (written): 140 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 102-104

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 16 18

Written lines: 16 18

Catchwords given on every verso.

Hand(s)

Oriental (Karaite) semi-cursive script of probably the 18th century.

History

Origin: 18th century

VIII

Contents

ff. 107r-109v
Title: Riddles

A fragment of a larger collection, of which 14 riddles have been preserved. The first and the last of the preserved pieces are fragmentary.

There are Arabic figures and other signs or words at the end of the riddles, probably to indicate the answers.

Physical Description

Fragment of the 18th century paper codex.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 3 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 165 × 110 mm.
Dimensions (written): 135 × 95 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 107-109

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 16 18

Written lines: 16 18

The text is vocalised. Catchwords are given on the versos.

Hand(s)

Oriental (Karaite) semi-cursive script of probably the 18th century.

History

Origin: 18th century

IX

Contents

ff. 110r-116v
Title: Penitential pieces

In Arabic, in Hebrew characters.

Physical Description

Fragment of a paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 7 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 170 × 115 mm.
Dimensions (written): 130 × 80 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 110-116

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 20 21

Written lines: 20 21

Uniform layout.

Catchwords on every verso.

Hand(s)

Oriental (Karaite) semi-cursive script of probably the 17th century.

History

Origin: 17th century

X

Contents

ff. 117r-120v
Title: Poetical pieces

In both Hebrew and Arabic (in Hebrew characters).

Physical Description

Fragment of a paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 4 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 165 × 110 mm.
Dimensions (written): 140 × 90 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 117-120

Condition

Water-damaged.

Stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 18 19

Written lines: 18 19

Uniform layout.

Catchwords on every verso.

Hand(s)

Oriental (Karaite) semi-cursive script of probably the 18th century.

History

Origin: 18th century

XI

Contents

ff. 121v-121v
Title: Poetical fragment

Only two strophes and three lines of the third are preserved.

Physical Description

Fragment of a paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 1 folio
Dimensions (leaf): 163 × 115 mm.
Dimensions (written): 135 × 90 mm.
Foliation:

Folio 121

Condition

Water-damaged.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 17

Written lines: 17

Hand(s)

Oriental (Karaite) semi-cursive script of probably the 18th century.

History

Origin: 18th century

XII

Contents

ff. 122r-123v
Title: A poetical piece

In Hebrew and Arabic in alternate strophes.

Physical Description

Fragment of a paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 2 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 168 × 111 mm.
Dimensions (written): 120 × 95 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 122-123

Condition

Water-damaged.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 15 16

Written lines: 15 16

Hand(s)

Oriental (Karaite) semi-cursive script of probably the 17th century.

History

Origin: 17th century

XIII

Contents

ff. 124r-124v
Title: A poetical piece

Only three strophes have been preserved.

Physical Description

Fragment of a paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 1 folio
Dimensions (leaf): 165 × 110 mm.
Dimensions (written): 130 × 85 mm.
Foliation:

Folio 124

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 16

Written lines: 16

Hand(s)

Oriental (Karaite) semi-cursive script of probably the 18th century.

History

Origin: 18th century

XIV

Contents

ff. 125r-125v
Title: A penitential piece

Only a fragment is extant.

Physical Description

Fragment of a paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 1 folio
Dimensions (leaf): 160 × 105 mm.
Dimensions (written): 125 × 80 mm.
Foliation:

Folio 125

Condition

Water-damaged.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 16

Written lines: 16

Hand(s)

Oriental (Karaite) semi-cursive script of probably the 18th century.

History

Origin: 18th century

XV

Contents

ff. 126r-126v
Title: Piyutim for sabbath-days

Physical Description

Fragment of a paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: cardboard
Support:
Extent: 1 folio
Dimensions (leaf): 165 × 110 mm.
Dimensions (written): 135 × 80 mm.
Foliation:

Folio 126

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 17

Written lines: 17

Hand(s)

Oriental (Karaite) semi-cursive script of probably the 18th century.

History

Origin: 18th century

XVI

Contents

ff. 127r-128v
Title: A poetical piece

Only a small fragment has been preserved.

Physical Description

Fragment of a paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 1 folio
Dimensions (leaf): 153 × 102 mm.
Dimensions (written): 125 × 80 mm.
Foliation:

Folio 127

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 20

Written lines: 20

Hand(s)

Oriental (Karaite) semi-cursive script of probably the 18th century.

History

Origin: 18th 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_2535 (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. 730.

Funding of Cataloguing

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