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

Title

A Karaite miscellany.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2538
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2538
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Judeo-Arabic

Origin

Summary

A Karaite miscellany.

Notes

• Slightly stained.
   

Extent

103 folios; 103 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Red leather spine and corners. Spine: 'Sefer Pardes. Hebrew & Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2538.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 21 22; written lines: 21 22; Uniform layout. Visible ruling with hard-point. Catchwords on every page. Initial words, titles, and parts of main text in red ink. A diagram, folio 14r.

Script

Oriental semi-cursive script of the 19th 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 (fse002v).
   

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 — פרדס רמוני החכמה וערוגת בושם המזמה
• fol. 1r — Pardes rimone ha-ḥokhmah ṿe-arugat bosem ha-mezimah
• fol. 42r — גן תעודות
• fol. 42r — Gan ha-te῾udot
• fol. 65v — אלף אלפים שותפים נופת
• fol. 65v — Elef alafim shotefim nofet
• fol. 68r — אהה אמי ילידתיני לרמה
• fol. 68r — Ahah imi yelidateni le-ramah
• fol. 73r — קצה אלאפרנג אלדי דכלי בדת בני מקרא
• fol. 73r — Ketseh
• fol. 83v — דברי תוכחה
• fol. 83v — Divre tokhaḥah
• fol. 85r — שיר נגד שבתי צבי ונתן העזתי
• fol. 85r — Shir neged Shabtai Tsevi ṿe-Natan ha-῾Azati
• fol. 86v — דיני ארוסין ונשואין
• fol. 86v — Dine erusin u-nesu᾿in
• fol. 88r — דיני גטין
• fol. 88r — Dine giṭin
• fol. 89v — טופס גט
• fol. 89v — Ṭofes geṭ
• fol. 90v — נוסח גט קראי
• fol. 90v — Nusaḥ geṭ kara᾿i
• fol. 92v — מקאמה
• fol. 92v — Maḳamah