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Title

The book of precepts.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 5064
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_5064
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Judeo-Arabic

Origin

Summary

The book of precepts.

Notes

• Leaves missing after folio 29, 69, 71, 73, 77, 98, 104, 124, 150, 186, 228.
   

Extent

232 folios; 232 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Samuel Al-Maghrebi. Sefer Ham-Miswoth. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 5064.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 27; written lines: 27; Uniform layout. Last line written outside ruling. Visible mastara ruling. Larger initial words and titles in red ink. Folios 231v and 232r are decorated, containing each a gilded sphere within a square in blue. Folio 1r is an ornamental title page. Folio 231r contains an ornamented colophon. Ornamented section markers, e.g., folio 25v.

Script

Oriental semi-cursive and square script of the 16th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Fischl Hirsch: purchased by the British Museum from him on 16 July 1896: inscribed, (flyleaf [iii]v).
   

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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