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Or 2538

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032-003314384
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Or 2538
Title:
Karaite miscellany
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
103 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2538 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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:
Daniel ben Moses Yashayah
Eli ben Yosef
Jacob ben Eleazar
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
דניאל בן משה ישעיה
יעקב בן אלעזר
עלי בן יוסף
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Or 2538

Karaite miscellany

Contents

A Karaite miscellany.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-41v
Title: Pardes rimone ha-ḥokhmah ṿe-arugat bosem ha-mezimah
Title: פרדס רמוני החכמה וערוגת בושם המזמה

An ethico-philosophical poem, incomplete.

Author: Jacob ben Eleazar יעקב בן אלעזר
ff. 42r-65v
Author: Jacob ben Eleazar יעקב בן אלעזר
Title: Gan ha-te῾udot
Title: גן תעודות

An ethico-philosophical work in rhymed prose, composed at request and for the instruction of Samuel and Ezra, sons of Yehudah.

Explicit: נשלם ספר גן תעודות : שבח לאל והלל והודות ובכאן נמצא שם המעתיק הראשון : והשלימו ישועה בן סעדיה בן ישועה בן שלומיאל לאור הנר ליל שלישי כ'ז' טבת שנת ה'ה'ר' ח'מד ליצירה הרחמן יזכני לכל משאלות לבי : בעזרת צורי ומשגבי : f. 65r
ff. 65v-67v
Title: Elef alafim shotefim nofet
Title: אלף אלפים שותפים נופת
Author: Eli ben Yosef עלי בן יוסף

An alphabetical poem in praise of a person unnamed.

ff. 68r-72v
Author: Eli ben Yosef עלי בן יוסף
Title: Ahah imi yelidateni le-ramah
Title: אהה אמי ילידתיני לרמה

A rhymed metrical piece.

Explicit: עד כאן מצאתי זאת המחברת בנוסח ישן והעתקתיו כיד אלהי הטובה עלי הצעיר וזעיר משה הלוי יר"ו בלאאור כמוהרר אברהם הלוי הפקיד הנאמן דק"ק ירושתו זצ"ל. f. 72v
ff. 73r-83r
Title: Ketseh
Title: קצה אלאפרנג אלדי דכלי בדת בני מקרא

A narrative recording a religious quarrel between the Rabbanite and the Karaite Jews of Fostat which took place in the reign of Sultan Al Malik Al Zahir Khosh-Kadem (1461-1467), in which the Karaites claim the victory.

ff. 83v-84v
Title: Divre tokhaḥah
Title: דברי תוכחה

An admonitory composition in rhymed prose addressed to Karaites.

ff. 85r-86r
Title: Shir neged Shabtai Tsevi ṿe-Natan ha-῾Azati
Title: שיר נגד שבתי צבי ונתן העזתי
Author: Daniel ben Moses Yashayah דניאל בן משה ישעיה

A poem against Sabbatai Tsevi and Nathan of Gaza.

ff. 86v-87v
Title: Dine erusin u-nesu᾿in
Title: דיני ארוסין ונשואין

Directions for bethrotal marriage ceremonies according to Karaite law.

ff. 88r-89r
Title: Dine giṭin
Title: דיני גטין

Directions for the ritual of divorce in accordance with Karaite custom.

ff. 89v-90v
Title: Ṭofes geṭ
Title: טופס גט

The form of a Karaite geṭ, copied from a manuscript in the Genizah in Old Cairo, dated 735 (1334-1335), as is shown in the scribe's entry to be given presently.

Filiation: Cf. Or 5532.
ff. 90v-91r
Title: Nusaḥ geṭ kara᾿i
Title: נוסח גט קראי

Two other forms of a Karaite geṭ, the first being given on folio 90v, and the second on folio 91r.

ff. 92v-103v
Title: Maḳamah
Title: מקאמה

Mainly in praise of the leaders of the Karaite community of Cairo, composed about the middle of the 15th century.

Colophon: תם ונשלם הנה זאת כתיבתי בידי : ויד תבלה ומכתבה לעילום: [...] כתבת וקד איקנת יום כתבתי : ועלמת אן ידי תפנה וכו' f. 103r

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 103 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 152 × 110 mm.
Dimensions (written): 125 × 85 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

Condition

Slightly stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 21 22

Written lines: 21 22

Uniform layout.

Visible ruling with hard-point.

Catchwords on every page.

Initial words, titles, and parts of main text in red ink.

A diagram, folio 14r.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive script of the 19th century.

Binding

BM in-house. Red leather spine and corners.

Spine: 'Sefer Pardes. Hebrew & Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2538.'

History

Origin: 19th century ; Palestine (Jerusalem)

Provenance and Acquisition

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_2538 (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. 1100.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL