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Or 2527

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032-003314383
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Or 2527
Title:
Aḥarit ha-yamim
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
66 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2527 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1400-1599
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Gedalyah Firuz ben Yosef Firuz
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
Yeshu῾ah Levi Matsliaḥ
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Or 2527

Aḥarit ha-yamim

Contents

Karaite eschatological work.

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-66v
Title: Aḥarit ha-yamim
Title: אחרית הימים

A treatise on eschatology in two parts, the first dealing with the diseases to which man is subject in this life, and ending with the doctrine of the resurrection, and the second part treating more specifically with eschatological problems.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th to 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 66 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 187 × 135 mm.
Dimensions (written): 140 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

66 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end).

Collation

Originally 7 quires of mostly 10 leaves each, signed with Hebrew letters and Arabic numerals on the first page of a quire (for the most part not preserved).

Condition

Incomplete.

Dark tidemarks at head from water entry.

Large infills at ends and corners throughout.

Final pages mutilated.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 14

Written lines: 14

Uniform layout.

Visible traces of ruling with mastara.

Catchwords on every verso.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive script of the 15th to 16th century.

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Karaite Tract. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2527.'

History

Origin: 15th-16th century ; Palestine?

Provenance and Acquisition

Gedalyah Firuz ben Yosef Firuz: inscribed, folio 34r.

Yeshu῾ah Levi Matsliaḥ: inscribed, folio 34r.

Moses WIlhelm Shapira: (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 08 July 1882: inscribed, back flyleaf (i)v.

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_2527 (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. 1099.

Funding of Cataloguing

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