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Or 7603

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Or 7603
Title:
Sefer ha-kuzari by Judah ha-Levi
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
227 folios
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Languages:
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1800
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1800-1899
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Haleṿi, Yehudah, c 1075-1141
Hartwig Hirschfeld
Judah ha-Levi
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Or 7603

Sefer ha-kuzari by Judah ha-Levi

Contents

A modern copy of Sefer ha-kuzari, in Judeo-Arabic.

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-277v
Title: Sefer ha-kuzari
Title: ספר הכוזרי
Title: כתאב אלחגה ואלדליל

In Arabic, in Hebrew characters. Copied from the Bodleian manuscript, [Neubauer_1994] 1228 by Dr Hartwig Hirschfeld.

Author: Judah, ha-Levi יהודה בן שמואל, הלוי

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 227 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 160 mm.
Dimensions (written): 170 × 130 mm.
Foliation:

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

Original Hebrew foliation.

Collation

Leaves on guards.

Condition

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 15

Written lines: 15

Uniform layout.

Text written on verso pages only.

Parts of the text underlined.

Hebrew foliation.

Folio 1 is a title page.

Hand(s)

Hebrew square/semi-cursive script, of the 19th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Judah Hallevi. Kitab Al-Khazari. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 7603.'

History

Origin: 19th century ; England?

Provenance and Acquisition

Hartwig Hirschfeld: presented by him to the British Museum on 14 October 1911: inscribed, back flyleaf (i)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_7603 (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. 1169.

Bibliography

    [Neubauer_1994] NeubauerAd. comp. 'Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library and in the College Libraries of Oxford'. Oxford Clarendon Pr1994reprint of 1886 edition, 1994.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL