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Or 2574

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032-003375148
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Or 2574
Title:
Fragments of Karaite commentaries
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
43 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2574 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Arabic
Hebrew
Scripts:
Arabic
Hebrew
Start Date:
1000
End Date:
1199
Date Range:
1000-1199
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2574

Fragments of Karaite commentaries

Contents

Two fragments of Karaite legal commentaries.

Language(s): Arabic, Hebrew

ff. 1r-36v
Title: A commentary on the laws of uncleanness

A fragment of a work treating on the differences and points of agreement between Abu ῾Ali and Abu al-Sari on the laws of uncleanness (Leviticus 12-15).

The work is written in Arabic, the Hebrew quotations also being given in the Arabic characters.

ff. 37r-43v
Title: A commentary on Genesis

A small fragment of a commentary on Genesis in Arabic, the Hebrew verses being also given in Arabic characters.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 11th to 12th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 43 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 170 × 130 mm.
Dimensions (written): 125 × 95 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of originally 10 leaves each.

Condition

Much damaged.

Incomplete.

All extant leaves inlaid between sheets of tissue paper, fixed on guards.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 13 18

Written lines: 13 18

Uniform layout.

Hand(s)

Arabic script of the 11th to 12th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'Comments on Mitsvoth. Etc. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Or. 2574.'

History

Origin: 1000-1199 11th-12th century

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 [45v]).

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_2574 (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. 590.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL