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Or 2533

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Or 2533
Title:
Karaite liturgical poems
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
351 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1600-1699
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CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2533

Karaite liturgical poems

Contents

A collection of Karaite piyuṭim.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-351v
Title: Piyuṭim
Title: פיוטים

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 351 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 155 × 105 mm.
Dimensions (written): 120 × 80 mm.
Foliation:

351 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

Condition

Folios 16, 17, 117, 335-338, 349-351 are later restorations.

Defective at the beginning and at the end.

Lacunae after folios 145, 205, 242, 333.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 13

Written lines: 13

Uniform layout.

Titles of particular pieces are written in larger square characters.

Catchwords are given on every verso.

Hand(s)

Oriental (Karaite) semi-cursive and square script of the 17th century.

Binding

BL/BM in-house.

Spine: 'Karaite Piyutim. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2533.'

History

Origin: 1600-1699 17th century Syria (Damascus)

Provenance and Acquisition

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, folio [352v].

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_2533 (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. 728.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL