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Title

A collection of fragments of Al-Qirqisānī's Kitāb al-anwār.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2524
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2524
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Judeo-Arabic; Arabic

Origin

Summary

A collection of fragments of Al-Qirqisānī's Kitāb al-anwār.

Notes

• Ink corrosion.
   
• Repaired before rebinding.
   

Extent

100 folios; 100 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Karaite Tract. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2524.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 15 24; written lines: 15 24; Uniform layout. Some marginal notes.

Script

Oriental (Karaite) square script of 14th to 15th century, and Arabic script of 12th to 13th century (folios 89-94).

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira: (b. 1830, d. 1884), antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum on 08 July 1882: inscribed, folio [102v].
   

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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