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Or 2575

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Or 2575
Title:
Mishpaṭ ha-yerushah
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
42 folios
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Languages:
Arabic
Hebrew
Scripts:
Arabic
Hebrew
Start Date:
1100
End Date:
1199
Date Range:
1100-1199
Era:
CE
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Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2575

Mishpaṭ ha-yerushah

Contents

A treatise on the laws of inheritance.

Language(s): Arabic, Hebrew

ff. 1r-42v
Title: Mishpaṭ ha-yerushah
Title: משפט הירושה

A fragment of a treatise on the laws of inheritance, in the form of a refutation against an opponent.

The text is written in Arabic, with Hebrew quotations given in Arabic characters.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 12th to 13th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 42 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 205 × 150 mm.
Foliation:

42 folios (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end).

Collation

Quires of originally 10 leaves each, now incomplete, marked with Arabic words on the left-hand upper corners of the first page (signatures mostly not preserved).

The first two quires, together with the first leaf of the third quire, are missing.

Folios 1-9 are the remaining 9 leaves of the third quire; folios 10-29 form two complete quires of 10 leaves each, marked on the left-hand upper corners of folios 10 and 20 respectively.

Of the 6th quire only the first leaf and the last are preserved (folios 30-31); the same with the 7th quire.

Folios 34-42 are the remaining leaves of the 8th quire.

Condition

Defective at the beginning and at the end.

Lacunae after folio 30, 32.

Stained.

Several leaves more or less damaged.

Fading ink. Folio 4 and 5 partly illegible.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 17 20

Written lines: 17 20

Uniform layout.

Diacritic points only partially given.

Hand(s)

An Arabic hand of approximately 12th to 13th century.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine title: 'Karaite Polemic Treatise. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2575.'

History

Origin: 1100-1199 12th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Wilhelm Shapira, (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 08 July 1882: inscribed, back flyleaf (i)v.

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_2575 (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. 595.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL