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Or 2578

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Or 2578
Title:
Kitāb al-Anwār wal-marāqib
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
168 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2578 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1100
End Date:
1299
Date Range:
1100-1299
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
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Or 2578

Kitāb al-Anwār wal-marāqib

Contents

Three pieces of Yaʻqūb ibn Isḥāq Qirqisānī Kitāb al-Anwār wal-marāqib.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-168v
Title: Kitāb al-Anwār wal-marāqib
Title: كتاب الأنوار والمراقب
Author: Qirqisānī, Yaʻqūb ibn Isḥāq, active 10th century قرقساني، يعقوب بن اسحق אלקרקסאני, אבו יוסף יעקוב‏
ff. 1r-105v
Title: Kitāb al-Anwār wal-marāqib

Portions of the 11th and 12th Maḳalat on the subject of forbidden marriages and the law of levirate, and forbidden meats, dress, seeds and on fringes.

Quotes several Karaite authorities.

Includes a complete index of the 42 chapters contained in this Maḳalah, folios

ff. 41r-44r
.

ff. 106r-160v
Title: Kitāb al-Anwār wal-marāqib

A fragment of Maḳalah 12, written in a different Arabic hand.

The biblical quotations are given in the Hebrew characters.

Has a substantial gap after folio 131 and a small gap after folio 111.

ff. 161r-168v
Title: Kitāb al-Anwār wal-marāqib

A small fragment of Maḳalah 12, in another hand.

Contains the whole chapter 33, together with some portions of chapter 32 and 34.

The biblical quotations are given in the Arabic characters.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 12 to 13th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 168 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 205/190 × 150 mm.
Foliation:

168 folios (+ 2 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

Quires numbered in part 1, i.e. nos. 13, 14, 15, 16.

Condition

Fragmentary all throughout. Defective at the beginning and at the end.

Many leaves more or less mutilated.

Gaps after folios: 1, 2, 8, 9, 17, 25, 27, 45, 55, 111, 131.

Stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 11 16

Written lines: 11 16

Uniform layout.

Hand(s)

Three different Arabic hands of the 12 to 13th century.

ff. 1r-105v
,
ff. 106r-160v
and
ff. 161r-168v
- due to different but contemporary Arabic hands.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine title: 'Abu Yusuf Al-Kirkisani. Sefer Mitsvoth. Sect. XI, XII. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Or. 2578.'

History

Origin: 1100-1299 12th-13th 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_2578 (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. 586.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL