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Or 2536

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032-003372139
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Or 2536
Title:
Collection of Karaite works
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
126 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1683
End Date:
1694
Date Range:
1683-1694
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Hebrew
Era:
CE
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Names:
Daniel ben Mosheh ha-Melamed ben Yesh῾ayah Firuz
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
Shelomoh ben Eliyahu Ḥazan
Yedidyah Shelomoh Nasi ben Amtsiyahu Yosef Nasi
al-Maghribi, Samuel ben Moses, 1400-1499
al-Maghribi, Samuel ben Moses, 1400-1499
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2536

Collection of Karaite works

Contents

Summary of Contents: An introduction to Karaite ritual according to the use of Damascus, containing a series of liturgical directions, followed by the tracts on the accents, Hebrew grammar etc.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-4v
Title: Mavoʾ
Title: מבוא

The treatise consists of 26 chapters.

Nearly the same entry as the incipit on folio 1r is found on folio 81r.

Incipit: קדוש לה' אלהים אלהי ישראל ית' שמן לקרות בו בבית הכנסת של בני מקרא ישמרם איום ונורא בעיר דמשק הקדישו כותבו הע' הצעיר צעיר תלמידי החכמים והרופאים הנרצע לעבודת האל וקשור בעבותות אהבת ישראל ומחכה לראות פני הגואל דניאל יבורך מייי' ומישראל ב'ל'א'א' משה המלמד נ"ע בכ"ר ישעיה נ"ע מבית פירוז י'ע'מ'ש' ארור גונבו ומוכרו ולוקחו לביתו וברוך שומרו א'נ'ס' ונכתב שנת ומן המקדש לא יצא ליצירה. f. 1r
f. 5r
Title: Introduction to the Pentateuch lections

A general statement on the Pentateuch lections in ordinary and intercalary years.

ff. 5r-18r
Title: Lists of lections

Detailed lists of the Pentateuch and Prophetic lections used on week-days, Sabbath days, the feast of the new moon, and festivals.

Chapters 3 and 4 of this text are missing, but their contents are given in the table of chapters on folios 1-4.

ff. 18r-20r
Title: On pericope Ha᾿azinu

Defective at the beginning.

ff. 20r-22r
Title: Readings from the Torah

A chapter giving introductory and valedictory portions for the readings from the Torah. These consist entirely of Scriptural verses taken from different parts.

ff. 22r-28v
Title: Series of Scripture verses

To be recited on the occasions of a wedding and the birth of a child.

ff. 30v-31v
Title: Introductory verses

For the the reading of the Ten Commandments.

ff. 31v-34r
Title: Series of biblical verses for Megilat Purim

Defective at the end.

ff. 34r-38v
Title: For the month of Av

Series of kinot etc.

ff. 38v-40v
Title: Tokhaḥot

Introductory and valedictory verses for the Tokhaḥot contained in the pericopes of Be-ḥuḳotai and Ki tavo.

ff. 40v-47r
Title: Special funeral offices
ff. 47r-50r
Title: Prayers for the dying

On folio 48r begins a chapter of rules to be observed by mourners.

ff. 50r-57r
Title: On mid-day prayers on Sabbath-days

Imperfect at the beginning.

Includes Psalm 55, 1Sam 2:1-10, Jonah 2:2-10; Psalms 91, 92, 8, and a number of other portions and series of verses.

Brikat kohanim is given on folio 55r.

ff. 57r-65r
Title: Propitiatory prayers

Each section includes Ex. 32:11 sqq. and Ex. 34:6 sqq.

ff. 65r-83r
Title: Penitential hymns and prayers

Folios 81v and 82 contain (in a different hand) fragments of a declaration of the divine unity, followed by petitions of pardon etc. This portion is named in the table of contents at the beginning as part of this section.

ff. 83r-86r
Title: Benedictions

A series of benedictions connected with food etc. Several of these benedictions are taken from the Rabbanite prayer book.

Imperfect at the end.

ff. 86r-92v
Title: Grammatical section (fragments)
ff. 92v-98v
Title: Grammatical section
ff. 98v-101v
Title: Grammatical section

Included are small sections on the triliteral character of Hebrew roots and on methods of vocalization.

ff. 101v-102v
Title: On numerals
ff. 102v-108v
Title: On the authorship of Scripture

A small section treating on the authorship of Biblical books and the succession of chief authorities according to the Karaite tradition.

The remainder of this section includes short masoretic lists, a statement on the commandments, Biblical chronology, the genealogy of Moses, and a Karaite version of the 13 principles of interpretation.

ff. 108v-111r
Title: On chronology

The time from the Creation to the Exodus is computed at 2446 years, from the exodus to the beginning of the building of the first Temple 480 years, from the Creation to the destruction of the first Temple 3354 years, and from the Creation to the destruction of the second Temple 3839 years. After this are short statement on the Muhammadan era, the era of Alexander and the Christian era.

Colophon: אעלם יא איהא אלואקף עלי דלך אלתואריך באנהא נאקלינהא מן בואטן כתב אלעלמא אלמתקדמין י"ה : וכאן אלפראג מן נסך דלך פי אול שהר טבת יאל מן סנה התנד לבריאת העולם ופי כאנון אלתאני מן סנה ב וכמס סנין לתאריך אלאסכנדרי לשטרות . ופי גמאד אלאול מו סנה אקה ללהגרה הסאב ישמעאל ושלום על ישראל וכאתבה הע' הצ' דניאל יבורך מייי' ומישראל. f. 110v
ff. 111r-126v
Title: A series of piyuṭim for Sabbath-days and festivals

Defective.

Folios 117-126 have been appended and contain mainly piyuṭim (written in various hands).

Colophon: כמלת בעון אללה תעאלי: וכאן אלפראג מנהא יום אלתאלת סדר נצ ויקרא אלתאני תאריכו יום כח לחודש אדר שני שנת התקס"ט ליצירה לפ"ק פה מצרים נב"ע [?] אלמואפק לשהר אלערבי צפר יום תמניה ועשרין סנת אלף ומאיתין ועשרין וכמסה. על שם הנער היפה היקר הנעים שלמה הצעיר בן אליהו ירוש החזן ס"ט בן המנוח אלישע ירו' נ"ע תנצב"ה אכי"ר ושלום. f. 122v

Physical Description

Paper codex of the late 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 126 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): 185 × 120 mm.
Foliation:

126 folios (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Contains later Arabic foliation.

Collation

Indeterminable (the manuscript is fragmentary; originally quires consisted of mostly 4 and 10 leaves each, signed with Hebrew letters and Arabic numerals on the first page).

Condition

Defective at the beginning and at the end.

Lacuna after folios 16, 33, 49, 78, 81, 82, 85, 87, 113 ,116.

Several leaves more or less damaged.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 23 25

Written lines: 23 25

Non-uniform layout.

Visible hard-point ruling.

Some parts of text highlighted in red ink (folios 118-122 of the appended part).

Catchwords on every verso in most parts of the manuscript.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive script, partly punctuated, of the late 17th century. Daniel ben Mosheh ha-Melamed ben Yesh῾ayah Firuz: inscribed, folio 1r & 81r.

ff. 117r-126v
are due to later hands, dated 5569 (folio 122v) and 5525 (folio 124r).

Additions:

A note on the number of persons to be called up at the reading of the Torah, folio 17v.

An English description of the manuscript in pencil, in a modern hand: folio (iii)v.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Karaite Ritual. Heb. & Arab. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2536.'

History

Origin: 1683-1694 Syria (Damascus)

Provenance and Acquisition

An entry with the date 5525 (1765) as the time when the manuscript to which this page belonged originally was finished, folio 124r.

Yedidyah Shelomoh Nasi ben Amtsiyahu Yosef Nasi: inscribed in an owner's entry, folio 17r.

Shelomoh ben Eliyahu Ḥazan: inscribed, folio 122v.

1882-07-08

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 08 July 1882: inscribed on 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_2536 (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. 724.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL