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

Title

Kitāb al-Anwār wal-marāqib (كتاب الأنوار والمراقب)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2578
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2578
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

Three pieces of Yaʻqūb ibn Isḥāq Qirqisānī Kitāb al-Anwār wal-marāqib.

Notes

• Fragmentary all throughout. Defective at the beginning and at the end.
   
• Many leaves more or less mutilated.
   
• Gaps after folios: 1, 2, 8, 9, 17, 25, 27, 45, 55, 111, 131.
   
• Stained.
   

Extent

168 folios; 168 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine title: 'Abu Yusuf Al-Kirkisani. Sefer Mitsvoth. Sect. XI, XII. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Or. 2578.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 11 16; written lines: 11 16; Uniform layout.

Script

Three different Arabic hands of the 12 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 [21v].
   

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 — Kitāb al-Anwār wal-marāqib
• fol. 106r — Kitāb al-Anwār wal-marāqib
• fol. 161r — Kitāb al-Anwār wal-marāqib