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Or 2568

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032-003314025
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Or 2568
Title:
Kitab al-tamyīz by Joseph ben Abraham, ha-Kohen ha-Ro'eh al-Baṣīr
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
30 folios
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Languages:
Arabic
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1000
End Date:
1099
Date Range:
1000-1099
Era:
CE
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Names:
Baṣīr, Joseph ben Abraham, philosopher and theologian, 1000-1099
Baṣīr, Joseph ben Abraham, philosopher and theologian, 1000-1099
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
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Or 2568

Kitab al-tamyīz by Joseph ben Abraham, ha-Kohen ha-Ro'eh al-Baṣīr

Contents

A Karaite philosophical treatise.

Language(s): Arabic

ff. 1r-30v
Title: Kitab al-tamyīz
Title: כתאב אלתמייז

Fragments of the Arabic original work, which is a shorter recension of the same author's Kitab al-muḥtaṿi.

Author: Baṣīr, Joseph ben Abraham, ha-Kohen ha-Ro'eh al- יוסף בן אברהם, הרואה

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 11th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 30 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 205 × 140 mm.
Dimensions (written): 150 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

30 folios (+ 2 unfoliated modern flyleaves at the beginning and 1 at the end).

Foliation in Arabic figures in the right-hand upper corner of the recto (partially preserved).

Collation

Quires of originally 10 leaves each (some incomplete), marked by catchwords at the end.

Condition

Corrosion splits and worming, repaired.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 14

Written lines: 14

Uniform layout.

Visible hard-point ruling.

Imperfect at the beginning and at the end.

Hand(s)

Naskhi hand of the 11th century

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Kitab Al-Mansuri. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2568.'

History

Origin: 11th century ; Unknown

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 (folio [31v]).

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_2568 (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. 895.

Funding of Cataloguing

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