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Or 2573

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Or 2573
Title:
Perush ha-mitsṿot
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
61 folios
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Languages:
Arabic
Hebrew
Scripts:
Arabic
Hebrew
Start Date:
1000
End Date:
1099
Date Range:
1000-1099
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 2573

Perush ha-mitsṿot

Contents

An Arabic treatise on the interpretation of the commandments.

Language(s): Arabic, Hebrew

ff. 1r-61v
Title: Perush ha-mitsṿot
Title: פרוש המצוות

A large portion, followed by a small portion of a work treating on the differences and points of agreement between bu 'Ali (Abu 'Ali Ḥasan al-Batsri?) and Abu al-Sari (Sahl ben Matsliaḥ al-Imam or ha-Kohen) in the interpretation of commandments.

Written in Arabic, but the quotations are given in the Hebrew characters.

Diacritic points are only partially used.

The title given on both the recto and the verso of folio 2, only partially preserved.

Folios 2v-13r treat on the festival of the new moon.

Folios 13r-25r - فصل في سورة الابيب.

Folios 25v-49v - מחרת השבת.

Folios 49v-59v - אלחלבים.

Quotes several Karaite authorities.

Physical Description

Paper codex of probably 11th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 61 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 203 × 177 mm.
Foliation:

61 folios (+3 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

Condition

Folio 2 and 58-59 is mutilated.

Imperfect at the beginning and at the end.

Slightly wotm-eaten.

Stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 12 15

Written lines: 12 15

Hebrew quotations given in Hebrew characters.

Hand(s)

Arabic hand of probably 11th century.

ff. 60r-61v
due to a different later hand.

Additions:

Folios 60r-61v: two fragments of the same work by another hand. The contents of folio 60 coincide with those on folio 42v to 44r.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine title: 'Comments on Mitsvoth. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2573.'

History

Origin: 1000-1099 11th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Partially illegible owners' entries in Arabic cursive, on a strip of paper, folio 1r, 1v - written by the same hand as folios 2-59.

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 (ii)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_2573 (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. 589.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL