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Or 5554B
Title:
Genizah fragments
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Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
36 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_5554B (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
0900
End Date:
1880
Date Range:
0900-1880
Era:
CE
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Names:
Baṣīr, Joseph ben Abraham, philosopher and theologian, 1000-1099
Baṣīr, Joseph ben Abraham, philosopher and theologian, 1000-1099
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 5554B

Genizah fragments

Contents

A collection of liturgical, halakhical, ethical, polemical, phisolosphical, etc. fragments from the Cairo Genizah.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-36v
Title: קטעי גניזה
Title: Ḳiṭʿe genizah

In Hebrew and in Judeo-Arabic.

Ff. 34-35: polemical treatise against Islam by Joseph ben Abraham al-Baṣīr.

References

Sklare, David E., 'Yūsuf Al-Baṣīr', in: The Jews of Medieval Islam. Community, Society and Identity. Proceedings of an International Conference held by the Institute of Jewish Studies, University College London 1992 (Leiden: Brill, 1995), p. 258 n29.
Sklare, David E., Samuel Ben Ḥofni Gaon and His Cultural World: Texts and Studies (Leiden: Brill, 1996), 115 n50.

Physical Description

Form: leaf
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 36 folios

Hand(s)

Various Hebrew scripts.

History

Origin: 0900-1880

Provenance and Acquisition

Cairo Genizah

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the TEI records received from the Friedberg Genizah Project and the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel. For more a detailed record, consult these online catalogues.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_5554B (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    G. Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan manuscripts in the British Museum (London, 1899-1935, 4 vols), vol. IV, p. 154.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL