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Title

A collection of Karaite legal treatises.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2528
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2528
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Judeo-Arabic; Arabic

Origin

Summary

A collection of Karaite legal treatises.

Notes

• Incomplete.
   
• On guards.
   
• Much damaged. On guards.
   
• Incomplete.
   
• Slightly damaged.
   
• Imperfect at the beginning and end.
   
• Gaps after folios: 33, 39, 63, 64, 65, 70, 75, 85, 86.
   
• Much damaged.
   
• Much damaged.
   

Extent

Part I: Folios 1-15. Part II: Folios 16-32. Part III: Folios 33-87. Part IV: Folios 88-93. Part V: Folios 94-99.;

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Spine title: 'Rules of Shechitah. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2528.'

Layout

Part I: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 20; written lines: 20; Catchowrds on every page. Some passages written in red ink. Part II: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 18-20; written lines: 18-20; Catchwords on every verso. Section titles given in larger characters. Part III: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 16-18; written lines: 16-18; Visible mastara ruling. Part IV: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 15; written lines: 15; Uniform layout. Part V: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 14; written lines: 14; Uniform layout. Visible mastara ruling.

Script

Part I: Semi-cursive script of the 19th century.Part II: Semi-cursive script of the 19th century.Part III: Oriental semi-cursive script of the 15th century.Part IV: Oriental semi-cursive of the 14th to 15th century.Part V: Oriental semi-cursive of the 15th to 16th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 08 July 1882, inscribed (folio [100v]).
   

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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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — The six articles of faith
• fol. 6r — The rules of sheḥiṭah
• fol. 16r — The six articles of faith
• fol. 33r — A treatise on sheḥiṭah
• fol. 88r — A treatise on sheḥiṭah
• fol. 94r — A treatise on sheḥiṭah