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

Title

Fragments of Karaite commentaries.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2574
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2574
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Arabic; Hebrew

Origin

Summary

Two fragments of Karaite legal commentaries.

Notes

• Much damaged.
   
• Incomplete.
   
• All extant leaves inlaid between sheets of tissue paper, fixed on guards.
   

Extent

43 folios; 43 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Spine title: 'Comments on Mitsvoth. Etc. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Or. 2574.'

Layout

Columns: 1 ; ruled lines: 13 18; written lines: 13 18; Uniform layout.

Script

Arabic script of the 11th to 12th 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 [45v]).
   

Related resources

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

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — A commentary on the laws of uncleanness
• fol. 37r — A commentary on Genesis