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Or 2580

Record Id:
032-003314027
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032-003314027
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Or 2580
Title:
Fragments of legal works
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
51 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2580 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Arabic
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1100
End Date:
1299
Date Range:
1100-1299
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 2580

Fragments of legal works

Contents

Fragments of legal works.

Language(s): Arabic

ff. 1r-6v
Title: Sefer ha-mitsṿot
Title: ספר המצוות
ff. 7r-16v
Title: Sefer ha-mitsṿot
Title: ספר המצוות
ff. 17r-21v
Title: ῾Al ha-shabat
Title: על השבת
ff. 22r-23v
Title: Ma᾿amar filosofiyah ῾al ha-beḥirah
Title: מאמר פילוסופיה על הבחירה
ff. 24r-35v
Title: Kitab al-anwar
Title: כתאב אלאנואר
Author: Qirqisānī, Yaʻqūb ibn Isḥāq אלקרקסאני, יעקב قرقساني، يعقوب بن اسحق
ff. 36r-47v
Title: ῾Al ḥayot ṭeme᾿ot
Title: על חיות טמאות
ff. 48r-48v
Title: Ma᾿amar ṿikuḥe neged ha-rabanim
Title: מאמר ויכוחי נגד הרבנים
ff. 50r-51v
Title: Kitab al-anwar wal-maraḳib
Title: כתאב אלאנואר ואלמראקב
Author: Qirqisānī, Yaʻqūb ibn Isḥāq קרקסאני, יעקב قرقساني، يعقوب بن اسحق‏

Physical Description

Fragments of paper codices of the 12th to 13th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 51 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 220 × 160 mm.
Dimensions (written): 175 × 110 mm.
Foliation:

51 folios (+ 2 unfoliated modern flyleaf at the beginning and 2 at the end).

Collation

Paper leaves stamped on modern paper, on guards.

Condition

Water/mould damage.

Losses at edges, infilled.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 15 20

Written lines: 15 20

Non-uniform layout.

Paper leaves variously shaped.

Hand(s)

Different Naskhi hands of the 12th to 13th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Fragments of Sifre Mitsvoth. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Or. 2580.'

History

Origin: 12th-13th century ; Unknown

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: bought from him on 08 July 1882: inscribed, folio [52v].

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_2580 (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. 587.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL