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Or 2572

Record Id:
032-003314026
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Or 2572
Title:
Collection of Karaite texts
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
118 folios (+ 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2572 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Arabic
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1000
End Date:
1199
Date Range:
1000-1199
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Baṣīr, Joseph ben Abraham, philosopher and theologian, 1000-1099
Baṣīr, Joseph ben Abraham, philosopher and theologian, 1000-1099
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
ʿAli ibn Suleymān,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/306354664
ʿAli ibn Suleymān,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/306354664
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2572

Collection of Karaite texts

Contents

A collection of four Karaite texts

Language(s): Arabic

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 11th to 12th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 118 folios (+ 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Quires of 12 leaves each.

Condition

Large losses to damp, mould and worms repaired/infilled before rebinding.

A few very dark stains, and many of the repairs obscure text.

Hand(s)

Various Naskhi styles of the 11th to 12th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Karaite Philosophical Tracts. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Or. 2572.'

History

Origin: 11th-12th century

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: inscribed, back flyleaf (i)v.

I

Contents

Language(s): Arabic

ff. 1r-12r
Author: ʿAli ibn Suleymān עלי בן סולימאן
Title: Ma᾿amarim pilosofiyim
Title: מאמרים פילוסופיים

Two philosophical tracts composed respectively in 465 (1072-1073) and 486 (1093), in original Arabic. Probably an autograph.

Physical Description

Fragment of a paper codex, probably of the 11th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 12 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 130 × 100 mm.
Dimensions (written): 120 × 90 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 1-12

Collation

Leaves on guards.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 12

Written lines: 12

Uniform layout.

Hand(s)

A Naskhi hand of the 11th century. Probably an autograph of ʿAli ibn Suleymān.

History

Origin:

II

Contents

Language(s): Arabic

ff. 12r-12v
Title: Ṿikuaḥ neged ha-muslemim
Title: וכוח נגד המוסלמים

A short piece designed to prove from Koran that the Jews have not altered the text of the Pentateuch either before the time of Muhammad or later.

Physical Description

Framgent of a paper codex of the latter part of the 11th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 1 folio
Dimensions (leaf): 130 × 100 mm.
Dimensions (written): 120 × 90 mm.
Foliation:

Folio 12

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 12

Written lines: 12

Uniform layout.

Hand(s)

A Naskhi hand of the 11th century. Probably the same as in Part I of the volume.

History

Origin: 1075-1099

III

Contents

Language(s): Arabic

ff. 13r-108v
Title: Ḳeta῾im be-filosofiyah
Title: קטעים בפילוסופיה

Four fragments with extracts from philosophical tracts, including quotations from Qirqisānī and Sahl ibn ʻAbd Allāh Tustarī.

Physical Description

Fragments of a paper codex of the 11th to 12th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 96 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 130 × 100 mm.
Dimensions (written): 110/105 × 75/65 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 13-108

Condition

Many leaves mutilated.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 20

Written lines: 20

Uniform layout.

Hand(s)

Naskhi hands of the 11th to 12th century.

History

Origin:

IV

Contents

Language(s): Arabic

ff. 109r-118v
Author: Baṣīr, Joseph ben Abraham active 11th century יוסף אלבציר
Title: Kitab al-shakhukh
Title: כתאב אלשכוך

The different parts of the manuscript once belonged to a Karaite synagogue, see the entries on folio 1r, amd 20r.

Physical Description

Framents of a paper codex of the 11th to 12th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 10 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 130 × 100 mm.
Dimensions (written): 120 × 75 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 109-118

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 18

Written lines: 18

Uniform layout.

Hand(s)

A Naskhi script and a Hebrew Oriental semi-cursive script of the 11th to 12th century.

History

Origin:

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_2572 (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. 896.

Funding of Cataloguing

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