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Or 2582

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032-003429065
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Or 2582
Title:
Arabic and Judeo-Arabic fragments
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
92 folios (ii+92+ii)
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Languages:
Arabic
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Arabic
Hebrew
Start Date:
0900
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
0900-1399
Era:
CE
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Names:
Jeshua ben Judah, 1000-1099
Jeshua ben Judah, 1000-1099
Qirqisānī, Yaʻqūb ibn Isḥāq, 0900-0999
Qirqisānī, Yaʻqūb ibn Isḥāq, 0900-0999
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Or 2582

Arabic and Judeo-Arabic fragments

Contents

A collection of 14 fragments in Judeo-Arabic. Most fragments belong to Karaite works.

Language(s): Arabic, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-4v
Title: חבור על הלכות טומאה כפי מנהג הקראים
Title: Ḥibur ʿal Hilkhot ṭumʾah kefi minhag ha-ḳaraʾim

From a treatise on the laws of uncleanliness.

Large Naskhī script; the Hebrew words being written in Hebrew script.

Colophon:
ff. 5r-12v
Author: ישועה בן יהודה Jeshua ben Judah, active 11th century (Abū l-Faraj Furqān ibn Asad)
Title: פרוש התורה לישועה בן יהודה
Title: Perush ha-Torah le-Yehoshuʿah ben Yehudah

A fragment of Abū l-Faraj Furqān's commentary on the Pentateuch.

Mainly on the refutation of the validity of oral tradition as represented in Talmudic literature.

Naskhi script; the Hebrew words are written in Arabic script with Hebrew vowels in red ink.

Colophon:
ff. 13r-20v
Title: חבור פולמוסי מוסלמי
Title: Ḥibur pulmosi muslemi

Fragment of a Muslim (possibly Muʿtazilite) polemical work divided into short chapters. The latest authority quoted is from the first half of the tenth century.

Cursive Naskhi script.

Colophon:
ff. 21r-32v
Title: חבור תיאולוגי מוסלמי
Title: Ḥibur teʾologi muslemi

A fragment of a Muslim theological work.

Large bold Naskhi script.

Colophon:
ff. 33r-38v
Title: חבור קראי על המועדים
Title: Ḥibur ḳaraʾi ʿal ha-moʿadim

A fragment of a Karaite work on festivals (which in its turn might form a part of a 'Book of laws'). The subject of the fragment is Omer and Shavuot.

No reference is given to Karaite or Rabbanite authorities.

Naskhi script; Hebrew words are written in Arabic script.

Colophon:
ff. 39r-55v
Author: ישועה בן יהודה Jeshua ben Judah, active 11th century (Abū l-Faraj Furqān ibn Asad)
Title: פרוש התורה לישועה בן יהודה (ויקרא יא)
Title: Perush ha-Torah le-Yeshuʿah ben Yehudah (Ṿa-yiḳraʾ 11)

A fragment of a commentary on Leviticus 11. The author of the commentary is probably by Abū l-Faraj Furqān and it belongs to the longer version of that author's commentary. Another fragment of the same commentary on the same chapter of Leviticus is found in Or 2494.

Small, hasty Naskhi script; the Hebrew words are in Arabic script. The writing is rather similar to the hands of Or 2572. It may have been copied by a scholar for his private use; possibibly an authograph?

Colophon:
ff. 56r-65v
Author: קרקסוני, יעקב Qirqisānī, Yaʻqūb ibn Isḥāq, active 10th century قرقساني، يعقوب بن اسحق
Title: כתאב אלאנואר ואלמראקב
Title: Kitab al-anwar wal-maraḳib

See S. Poznanski, 'Die Qirqisani Handschriften im Brit. Mus.' in Steinschneider Festschrift, 1896, pp. 195-218.

Colophon:
ff. 66r-69v
Title: תרגום ערבי לתורה (דברים כג-כט)
Title: Targum ʿaravi la-Torah (Devarim 23-29)

A fragment of an Arabic, probably Karaite, translation of Deuteronomy 23:8-29:17. Occasionally phrases, verses, and even longer passages are omitted. The translation shows some likeness to that contained in London, BL, Or 2558, ff. 1r-205v.

Clear Naskhi script.

Colophon:
ff. 70r-74v
Title: סדור מנהג קראים
Title: Sidur minhag Ḳaraʾim

A fragment of a Karaite prayer book. This is the third fragment in the BL collection of Karaite prayer books written in Arabic script; the other two being contains in Or 2539, ff. 1-55.

Large, clear Naskhi script; Hebrew vowel points in red ink.

Colophon:
ff. 75r-75v
Title: חבור על הלכות ירושה
Title: Ḥibur ʿal Hilkhot yerushah

Clear Naskhi script; Hebrew words are in the same Arabic script.

Colophon:
ff. 76r-80v
Title: חבור בענין עריות
Title: Ḥibur be-inyan ʿarayot

A fragment of a Karaite treatise on forbidden marriages, the subject of the fragment being mainly Leviticus 18:20.

Clear Naskhi script; Hebrew words are in Arabic script except for four words on f. 76v written in Hebrew square script.

Colophon:
ff. 81r-88v
Title: חבור במוסר
Title: Ḥibur be-musar

Possibly a fragment of a (Karaite?) treatise on ethics.

Small, hasty Naskhi script; Hebrew words are in Hebrew square script.

Colophon:
ff. 89r-90v
Author: קרקסוני, יעקב Qirqisānī, Yaʻqūb ibn Isḥāq, active 10th century قرقساني، يعقوب بن اسحق
Title: כתאב אלאנואר ואלמראקב
Title: Kitab al-anwar wal-maraḳib

Large, clear Naskhi script; Hebrew words are in the same Arabic script; f. 90 is entirely in Hebrew being a quotation from the Mishnah (RH 2:5-7).

Colophon:
ff. 91r-92v
Title: חבור בשיטת הכלאם
Title: Ḥibur be-siṭat ha-kalam

Apparently a fragment of a Muslim (or Karaite) Kalām treatise, bearing no evidence of a Jewish origin. The subject of the fragment is the 'immediate (or intuitive) knowledge'.

Clear Naskhi script.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Composite paper codex of the 10th-14th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 92 folios (ii+92+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 255 × 191 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

There is an unfoliated blank leaf between fragments.

Collation

Leaves on guards.

Condition

Layout

Columns:1

Given dimensions are those of the flyleaves.

Hand(s)

Arabic Naskhi scripts and Hebrew square scripts of the 10th-14th century.

Binding

BM in-house binding.

Title on spine: 'Karaite Fragments. Arabic. Brit. Mus. OR. 2582'.

History

Origin: 0900-1399 10th-14th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Acquisition note on back flyleaf (i)v: 'B.t of Shapira. 8 July 1882.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and H. Ben Shammai's description in his article: 'Some Judaeo-Arabic Karaite fragments in the British Museum Collection', in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 38/1 (1975), pp. 126-132.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2582 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    H. Ben Shammai, 'Some Judaeo-Arabic Karaite fragments in the British Museum Collection', in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 38/1 (1975), pp. 126-132.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL