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

Title

Karaite service book and parts of biblical text.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2539
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2539
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Arabic

Origin

Summary

Karaite service book and parts of biblical text.

Notes

• Stains.
   
• Mould damage.
   
• Worming.
   

Extent

132 folios; 132 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Karaite Liturgies, Etc. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2539.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 8 16; written lines: 8 16; Non-uniform layout. Visible ruling with mastara. Red highlights in the latter part of the volume. Some marginal notes.

Script

Arabic script of approximately 10th to 14th century, partly with Hebrew vocalisation.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 08 July 1882, folio [133v].
   

Related resources

• Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

Licenses

• Text

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