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Title

A collection of Karaite legal treatises.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2576
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2576
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Arabic; Hebrew

Origin

Summary

A collection of Karaite legal treatises.

Notes

• Damaged.
   
• Much damaged. Inlaid in sheets of tracing paper.
   
• Largely worm-eaten.
   
• More or less damaged.
   

Extent

Part I: Folios 1-15. Part II: Folios 16-56. Part III: Folios 57-68.;

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Spine title: 'Karaite Treatises. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Or. 2576.'

Layout

Part I: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 16-19; written lines: 16-19; Uniform layout. Part II: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 16; written lines: 16; Unifrom layout. Part III: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 15-17; written lines: 15-17; Uniform layout.

Script

Part I: Arabic script of the 11th century.Part II: Arabic script of the 11th century.Part III: Arabic script of the 11th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 08 July 1882, inscribed ([69v]).
   

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 — The laws of inheritance
• fol. 16r — A Karaite commentary
• fol. 57r — A treatise on the new moon