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

Title

Collection of philosophical writings.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 1306
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1306
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

Philosophical writings.

Notes

• Tidemarks at head and often on an entire leaf, without loss of text.
   
• Stains on board cloth.
   

Extent

181 folios; 181 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Ets Chayyim. Etc. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1306.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 24 47; written lines: 24 47; Uniform layout. Titles and inital words in larger characters. Visible hard-point ruling.

Script

Byzantine (Karaite) semi-cursive scripts, unpunctuated, of the 16th century.

Provenance

• Yosef Begi (?)
   
• Shelomoh Begi (?)
   
• Eliyahu ben Yitsḥaḳ Yafet
   
• Acquisition: Fischl Hirsch: purchased from him by the British Museum on 10 April 1875: inscribed, folio [183v] (fse002v).
   

Related resources

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

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — עץ חיים
• fol. 1v — ῾Ets ḥayim
• fol. 153v — משרת משה
• fol. 153v — Mesharet Mosheh
• fol. 172r — ספר התפוח
• fol. 172r — Sefer ha-tapuaḥ
• fol. 176r — מוסרי הפילוסופים
• fol. 176r — Musare ha-pilosofim
• fol. 176v — רוח חן
• fol. 176v — Ruaḥ ḥen