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Title

A fragment of a polemic treatise against the Rabbanite code of laws as laid down in Maimonides' Mishneh Torah.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2522
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2522
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Judeo-Arabic; Hebrew

Origin

Summary

A fragment of a polemic treatise against the Rabbanite code of laws as laid down in Maimonides' Mishneh Torah.

Notes

• Much damaged. Some leaves restored (stuck on modern paper).
   
• Worm-eaten.
   
• Defective at the end.
   

Extent

109 folios; 109 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Karaite tract. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2522.'

Layout

Columns: 1 ; ruled lines: 13; written lines: 13; Uniform layout. Visible mastara ruling. Catchwords on every verso.

Script

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

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 08 July 1882: inscribed, [110v].
   

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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