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

Title

A Karaite philosophical treatise.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2568
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2568
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Arabic

Origin

Summary

A Karaite philosophical treatise.

Notes

• Corrosion splits and worming, repaired.
   

Extent

30 folios; 30 folios

Foliation

Foliation in Arabic figures in the right-hand upper corner of the recto (partially preserved).

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Kitab Al-Mansuri. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2568.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 14; written lines: 14; Uniform layout. Visible hard-point ruling. Imperfect at the beginning and at the end.

Script

Naskhi hand of the 11th 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 [31v]).
   

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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