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

Title

A collection of Karaite piyuṭim.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2533
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2533
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Judeo-Arabic

Origin

Place

SyriaDamascus

Summary

A collection of Karaite piyuṭim.

Notes

• Folios 16, 17, 117, 335-338, 349-351 are later restorations.
   
• Defective at the beginning and at the end.
   
• Lacunae after folios 145, 205, 242, 333.
   

Extent

351 folios; 351 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BL/BM in-house. Spine: 'Karaite Piyutim. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2533.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 13; written lines: 13; Uniform layout. Titles of particular pieces are written in larger square characters. Catchwords are given on every verso.

Script

Oriental (Karaite) semi-cursive and square script of the 17th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 08 July 1882: inscribed, folio [352v].
   

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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