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

Title

Mishpaṭ ha-yerushah.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2575
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2575
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Arabic; Hebrew

Origin

Summary

A treatise on the laws of inheritance.

Notes

• Defective at the beginning and at the end.
   
• Lacunae after folio 30, 32.
   
• Stained.
   
• Several leaves more or less damaged.
   
• Fading ink. Folio 4 and 5 partly illegible.
   

Extent

42 folios; 42 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine title: 'Karaite Polemic Treatise. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2575.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 17 20; written lines: 17 20; Uniform layout. Diacritic points only partially given.

Script

An Arabic hand of approximately 12th to 13th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira, (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 08 July 1882: inscribed, folio [46v].
   

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 — משפט הירושה
• fol. 1r — Mishpaṭ ha-yerushah