Collection ID: 0047 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Karaite eschatological work.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2527
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2527
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Judeo-Arabic

Origin

Summary

Karaite eschatological work.

Notes

• Incomplete.
   
• Dark tidemarks at head from water entry.
   
• Large infills at ends and corners throughout.
   
• Final pages mutilated.
   

Extent

66 folios; 66 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Karaite Tract. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2527.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 14; written lines: 14; Uniform layout. Visible traces of ruling with mastara. Catchwords on every verso.

Script

Oriental semi-cursive script of the 15th to 16th century.

Provenance

• Gedalyah Firuz ben Yosef Firuz
   
• Yeshu῾ah Levi Matsliaḥ
   
• Acquisition: Moses WIlhelm Shapira: (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 08 July 1882: inscribed, folio [67v] (fse001v).
   

Related resources

• Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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