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

Title

Al-Murshid (אלמרשד)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2405
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2405
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Judeo-Arabic; Hebrew

Origin

Summary

Volume 1 of Al-Murshid, the book of precepts of Samuel ben Moses ha-Maʿarabi.

Notes

• Much damaged. Some leaves stuck on modern paper.
   
• Folios 1r, 316v: a note of ownership of the Karaite synagogue of Jerusalem.
   
• Daniel ben Mosheh ha-Melamed: inscribed, folio 1r.
   
• A note stating that certain Avraham Rofe used the manuscript in 5476 (1716): inscribed, folio 1r.
   

Extent

316 folios; 316 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Samuel ha-Rofe. Sefer Mitsvoth. Vol. I. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2405.'

Layout

Columns: 1 ; ruled lines: 14; written lines: 14; Uniform layout. Visible mastara ruling. Chapter numbers given in larger characters. Catchwords on every verso, only partly preserved.

Script

Oriental semi-cursive script of the 16th century. Daniel ben Mosheh ben Yeshayah Firuz: inscribed, folio 198v of volume 2.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 23 July 1881: inscribed (folio [318v]).
   

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. 2r — Preface
• fol. 2v — Index
• fol. 11r — Maḳalah 1
• fol. 21v — Maḳalah 2
• fol. 51v — Maḳalah 3
• fol. 77v — Maḳalah 4
• fol. 151r — Maḳalah 5