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Or 2579

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032-003375150
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Or 2579
Title:
Kitab al-anwar wal-maraqib
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
84 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2579 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Arabic
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1000
End Date:
1199
Date Range:
1000-1199
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
Qirqisānī, Yaʻqūb ibn Isḥāq, 0900-0999
Qirqisānī, Yaʻqūb ibn Isḥāq, 0900-0999
Yaʻqūb ibn Isḥāq Qirqisānī
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2579

Kitab al-anwar wal-maraqib

Contents

Summary of Contents: Portions of Kitab al-anwar wal-maraqib by Yaʻqūb ibn Isḥāq Qirqisānī.

Language(s): Arabic

ff. 1r-84v
Title: Kitab al-anwar wal-maraqib
Title: כתאב אלאנואר ואלמראקב
Author: Qirqisānī, Yaʻqūb ibn Isḥāq אלקרקסאני, אבו יוסף יעקוב قرقساني، أبو يوسف يعقوب‏
ff. 1r-56v
Title: Maḳalah 5

Contains the greater part of the original text, treating on circumcision and Sabbath.

Filiation: Cf the contents of Or 2526, 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. 598., folios 207-233.
ff. 57r-84v
Title: Maḳalah 4
Filiation: Cf the contents of Or 2557, 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. 250. and Or 2493, 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. 251..

Contains only some portions of this part of the original treatise.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 11th to 12th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 84 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 175 mm.
Dimensions (written): 180 × 140 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of originally 10 leaves each. Traces of quires signatures preserved on folios 19r, 28r, 75r, 81r.

The first leaf of the second half of a quire is marked with the Arabic cipher (e.g. 11r, 20r, 39r).

Condition

Much damaged.

Incomplete.

Lacunae after folios 6, 14, 33, 43, 51, 54, 56, 66, 72, 74, 75, 79, 82.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 12

Written lines: 12

Uniform layout.

Hand(s)

Arabic script of the 11th to 12th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'Abu Yusuf Al-Kirkisani. Sefer Mitsvoth. Sect. V. VI. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Or. 2579

History

Origin: 1000-1199 11th-13th century

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 [85v]).

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_2579 (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. 585.

Funding of Cataloguing

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