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Or 2598

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032-003411187
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Or 2598
Title:
Fragments
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
216 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2598 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Arabic
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Arabic
Hebrew
Start Date:
1200
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1200-1799
Era:
CE
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2598

Fragments

Contents

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

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, Arabic

ff. 1r-216v
Title: Fragments in Arabic, Judeo-Arabic and in Hebrew, some are from Karaite works.

Miscellaneous fragments chiefly consisting of commentaries on the Pentateuch and other portions of the Bible.

In Hebrew and in Judeo-Arabic.

Some of the fragments are of Karaite origin.

Cf. London, BL, Or 2597.

Colophon:
ff. 1r-17v
Language(s): Arabic
Title: Arabic version of Sefer Josippon
ff. 85r-91v
Language(s): Judeo-Arabic
Title: Commentary on Parashat Ḳoraḥ

These pages are fromn the same manuscript as London, BL, Or 5563H, f. 12. The latter is a Genizah fragment sold to the BM by Raffalovich in 1898.

ff. 162r-162v
Title: A letter of Daniel ben Eleazar he-Ḥasid

See Leveen, 'A letter'. The brief article also provides transliteration.

f. 163r
Title: תפלת שמע ישראל
Title: Tefilat Shemaʿ Yiśraʾel

A small parchment leaf.

Physical Description

Composite paper codex of the 13th-18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Various types of paper. F. 163 is parchment.
Extent: 216 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 218 × 158 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Leaves on guards.

Condition

Usage stains, water stains, tears, holes.

Layout

Columns:1

Given dimensions are those of the flyleaves. The size and layout of the leaves vary.

Hand(s)

Hebrew square and semi-cursive scripts, mostly Oriental; by various hands.

Ff. 1-17: Arabic script.

Binding

BM in-house.

Title in spine: 'Hebrew Fragments. Brit. Mus. OR. 2598.'

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_2598 (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.
    Leveen, Jacob, 'A letter of Daniel ben Eleazar He-Hasid' JQR 16 (1926), pp. 395-397.
    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

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