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Or 2990

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032-003314047
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Or 2990
Title:
Or ha-levanah by Isaac ben Solomon
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
91 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2990 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1850
End Date:
1850
Date Range:
1850
Calendar:
Hebrew
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Hirsch Lipschutz
Isaac ben Solomon, Karaite, 1755-1826,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000038449138,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/43825362
Isaac ben Solomon, Karaite, 1755-1826,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000038449138,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/43825362
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2990

Or ha-levanah by Isaac ben Solomon

Contents

Astronomical work.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-91v
Author: Isaac ben Solomon, Karaite, 1755-1826 יצחק בן שלמה, הקראי
Title: Or ha-levanah
Title: אור הלבנה

A treatise on the mode of fixing and consecrating the New Moon, including many calendrical tables.

Two additional pieces are appended: a treatise on the manner of harmonizing the solar year with the lunar year, dated 5591 (1831), and additional piece of establishing the New Moon, based on Isaac ben Solomon's Or ha-levanah.

Colophon: והשלמתיו יום ששי לסדר מטות מסעי כח תמוז בשנת והי"ה או"ר הלבנ"ה לפ"ק: פה גוזלווא יע"א. f. 87v

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 91 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 217 × 175 mm.
Dimensions (written): 155 × 110 mm.
Foliation:

91 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 2 at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

Condition

Usage stains and slight corner stain at end.

Dirt entry occasionally at head.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 23 28

Written lines: 23 28

Uniform layout.

Pencil ruling visible.

Running title.

Folio to folio catchwords.

Hand(s)

Oriental (Karaite) semi-cursive script of the 19th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Isaac ben Solomon. Or Hal-Lebanah. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2990.'

History

Origin: 1850 Crimea (Gozlow)

Provenance and Acquisition

Hirsch Lipschutz: purchased by the British Museum from him on 30 November 1885: inscribed, back flyleaf (ii)v.

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_2990 (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. 1019.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL