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Or 2597

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Or 2597
Title:
Fragments
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
113 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2597 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1200
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1200-1799
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
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Names:
Najara, Israel ben Moses, 1555-1625
Najara, Israel ben Moses, 1555-1625
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2597

Fragments

Contents

A collection of miscellaneous manuscript fragments of Karaite and Rabbinic works.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-113r
Title: Fragments in Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew, some are from Karaite works.

In Hebrew and in Judeo-Arabic.

Chiefly consisting of commentaries on the Pentateuch and other portions of the Bible, as well as medical and poetic fragments.

Some of the fragments are of Karaite origin.

Cf. London, BL, Or 2598.

Colophon:
ff. 50r-71r
Author: ישראל נג'ארה Najara, Israel ben Moses, 1555?-1625?
Title: קטע מדיוואן של ישראל נג’ארה
Title: Ḳetaʿ me-Diṿan shel Yiśraʾel Na'arah
ff. 102r-111v
Title: Medical fragment in Judeo-Arabic

Physical Description

Composite paper codex of the 13th-18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 113 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 285 × 190 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Leaves on guards.

Condition

Usage stains, iron gall ink corrosion, water damage, worm damage, tears.

Layout

Columns:1

Given dimensions are those of the flyleaves. Size and layout of the fragments vary.

Hand(s)

Hebrew square and semi-cursive scripts, mostly Oriental and Yemenite; by various hands. In black and red ink.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house binding.

Title on spine: 'Karaite Fragments. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. OR. 2597.'

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1200-1799 13th-18th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought from Moses Wilhelm Shapira (1830-1884) together with 203 other Karaite manuscripts (Or 2398-2602); acquisition note on back flyleaf (i)v: 'Bought of M. W. Shapira. 8 July 1882'; date of accession July 1891.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and volume IV of Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2597 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Derenbourg, Hartwig, 'Les manuscrits judaïques entrés au British Museum de 1867 à 1890'Revue des études juives, no. 45 (1891), pp. [99]-116, [279]-301.
    Rowland Smith, Diana, 'Genizah Collections in the British Library ' in: Hebrew Studies. British Library Occasional Papers 13 (London: The British Library, 1991), pp. 20-25, esp. p. 22.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL