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Or 2577

Record Id:
032-003375149
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Or 2577
Title:
Karaite Sefer ha-mitsṿot
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
167 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2577 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Arabic
Hebrew
Scripts:
Arabic
Hebrew
Start Date:
1024
End Date:
1024
Date Range:
1024
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
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 2577

Karaite Sefer ha-mitsṿot

Contents

A large fragment of Karaite Sefer ha-mitsṿot.

Language(s): Arabic

ff. 1r-102v
Title: Maḳalah 5

Contains parts of Maḳalah 5, treating on forbidden degrees in marriage. Hebrew quotations are also in Arabic characters.

ff. 103r-159v
Title: Maḳalah 6

Contains parts of Maḳalah 6 on the laws of inheritance. Hebrew quotations are also in Arabic characters.

ff. 160r-167v
Title: Maḳalah

A small fragment of another Maḳalah on unleavened bread on Passover. Hebrew quotations are also in Arabic characters.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 11th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 167 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 170 × 100 mm.
Dimensions (written): 140 × 75 mm.
Foliation:

167 folios (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end).

Collation

Quires of originally 10 leaves each. The enumeration in Arabic numerals is for the most part preserved.

Condition

Much damaged. Worm-eaten.

Incomplete. Leaves missing after folio 102, 106, 159.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 12

Written lines: 12

Uniform layout.

Hand(s)

Arabic script of the 11th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'Karaite Sefer Mitsvoth. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2577.'

History

Origin: 1024

Provenance and Acquisition

1882-07-08

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 08 July 1882: inscribed (folio [168v]).

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_2577 (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. 592.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL