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Or 2406

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Or 2406
Title:
Al-Murshid by Samuel ben Moses, al-Maghribī, vol. 2
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
384 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2406 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1520
End Date:
1520
Date Range:
1520
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Seleucid
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CE
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Names:
Daniel ben Mosheh ben Yeshayah Firuz
Daniel ben Mosheh ha-Melamed
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
Samuel ben Moses, al-Maghribī, fl 15th century,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000067013202,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/79254468,
Samuel ben Moses, al-Maghribī, fl 15th century,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000067013202,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/79254468,
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2406

Al-Murshid by Samuel ben Moses, al-Maghribī, vol. 2

Contents

Volume 2 of Al-Murshid, the book of precepts of Samuel ben Moses al-Maghribī.

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-384v
Title: Al-Murshid
Title: אלמרשד

The book is accordingly divided into 12 maḳalat spread over two volumes. Each maḳalah is divided into a number of chapters, the numbers of which are marked with Hebrew letters in the margin.

Author: Samuel ben Moses, al-Maghribī שמואל בן משה, המערבי
Filiation: Uniform with [BL] Or 2405. Cf the same handwriting of [BL] Or 2517, folios 108-146; see 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. 254.
Colophon: נשלם ביום שני בשבוע והוא יום שני מחדש תמוז יה' אב' לש' שנת אלף ושמונה מואת ואחד ושלשים שנה לשטרות והי שנת חמשת אלפים ומאתים ושמונים שנה לבריאת העולם. f. 384r
ff. 2r-96r
Title: Maḳalah 1
ff. 96r-123v
Title: Maḳalah 2
ff. 123v-200v
Title: Maḳalah 3
ff. 200v-263r
Title: Maḳalah 4
ff. 263r-308r
Title: Maḳalah 5
ff. 308r-346v
Title: Maḳalah 6
ff. 346v-384v
Title: Maḳalah 7

References

[Al_Murshid_2001]

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 384 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 190 × 140 mm.
Dimensions (written): 145 × 105 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of mostly 12 leaves each.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 14

Written lines: 14

Uniform layout.

Visible hard-point ruling.

Chapter numbers given in larger characters. Titles given in larger square characters.

Catchwords on every verso.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive script of the 16th century. Daniel ben Mosheh ben Yeshayah Firuz: inscribed, folio 198v.

ff. 1r-199v
: supplied by a later hand, of approximately the end of 17th century or the beginning of the 18th century.

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Samuel Ha-Rofe. Sefer Mitsvoth. Vol. II. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2406.'

History

Origin: 1520

Provenance and Acquisition

Folios 1r, 316v of volume 1: a note of ownership of the Karaite synagogue of Jerusalem.

Daniel ben Mosheh ha-Melamed: inscribed, folio 1r.

A note stating that certain Shemu᾿el ben Avraham ha-Leṿi used the manuscript in 1744: inscribed, folio 1v.

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 23 July 1881: inscribed, [385v].

1881-07-23

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

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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. 602.

Bibliography

    [Al_Murshid_2001] משה, הרופא שמואל בן, and al-Maghribī Samuel ben Moses. 'Sefer Ha-Mitsṿot / Le-R. Shemuʾel Ben Mosheh Ha-Rofe Ha-Maʻaravi.'אשדוד: מכון ״תפארת יוסף״ לחקר היהדות הקראית 2001 or 2002, Ashdod, 2001.
    [BL] BL = British Library shelfmark

Funding of Cataloguing

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