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Or 2522

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Or 2522
Title:
A Karaite polemical treatise
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
109 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2522 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1400-1599
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2522

A Karaite polemical treatise

Contents

A fragment of a polemic treatise against the Rabbanite code of laws as laid down in Maimonides' Mishneh Torah.

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-109v
Title: A Karaite polemical treatise

Contains portions of the fourth and fifth part of the work.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th to 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 109 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 175 × 130 mm.
Dimensions (written): 140 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

10 quires of 10 leaves each, marked with Hebrew letters on the upper right-hand corner at the beginning of each quire, and with Arabic numerals on the upper left-hand corners.

The numeration of quires starts with no. 5, which indicates that the first four quires, together with the first leaf of the fifth quire are missing.

Condition

Much damaged. Some leaves restored (stuck on modern paper).

Worm-eaten.

Defective at the end.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 13

Written lines: 13

Uniform layout.

Visible mastara ruling.

Catchwords on every verso.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive script of the 15th to 16th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Karaite tract. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2522.'

History

Origin: 1400-1599 15th-16th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 08 July 1882: inscribed, [110v].

1882-07-08

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_2522 (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. 604.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL