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Or 2539

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Or 2539
Title:
Karaite maḥzor
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
132 folios
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Languages:
Arabic
Hebrew
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Arabic
Hebrew
Start Date:
0900
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
0900-1399
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 2539

Karaite maḥzor

Contents

Karaite service book and parts of biblical text.

Language(s): Hebrew, Arabic

ff. 1r-132v
Title: Maḥzor minhag Ḳara᾿im
Title: מחזור מנהג קראים

Two fragments of a Karaite service-book. Hebrew text is written in Arabic characters, partly provided with Hebrew vowel points, with insctructions for the precentor in Arabic.

The service-book is followed by (much earlier) fragments of Genesis, Deuteronomy, and Numbers. Hebrew text is written in Arabic characters, with Hebrew vowel points.

Physical Description

Paper codex of approximately 10th to 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 132 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 145/135/155 × 90/85/110/120 mm.
Dimensions (written): 120/115/95/135 × 80/70/75/100 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Leaves restored on paper.

Condition

Stains.

Mould damage.

Worming.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 8 16

Written lines: 8 16

Non-uniform layout.

Visible ruling with mastara.

Red highlights in the latter part of the volume.

Some marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Arabic script of approximately 10th to 14th century, partly with Hebrew vocalisation.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Karaite Liturgies, Etc. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2539.'

History

Origin: 10th-14th century ; Unknown

Provenance and Acquisition

1882-07-08

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 08 July 1882, folio [133v].

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_2539 (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. 153., vol IV (supplement)

Funding of Cataloguing

BL