Description of British Library, Or 2558: Karaite commentariescontributorIlana TahancatalogerAgata PaluchThe Polonsky FoundationBritish Library2023-02-102023-02-10These images and the content of British Library Or 2558: Karaite commentaries are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.To the extent possible under law, British Library has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about British Library Or 2558: Karaite commentaries. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.Modern restoration; many folios stuck on paper.Folios missing at the beginning and at the end, and after folios 18, 68, 74, 96, 100, 101, 121, 129, 138, 147, 148, 149, 159, 169, 170, 178, 184, 194, 195, 205.Many extant leaves are more or less damaged.Many extant leaves are more or less damaged.Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.United KingdomLondonBritish LibraryHebrew Manuscripts Digitisation ProjectOr 2558http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2558https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscriptsTwo fragments of Arabic commentaries on the books of Pentateuch.Arabic; HebrewKaraite commentaries1rCommentary on the books of Exodus and Deuteronomy.206rDeuteronomy
Paper
212 folios (+ 2 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end). Part I: Folios 1-205 Part II: Folios 206-212; Part I: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 15; written lines: 15; Part II: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 15; written lines: 15; The Hebrew text is provided with punctuation.Two different Naskhi hands of 11th to 13th century, and Oriental square script of 12th to 13th century.Part I: A Naskhi hand of approximately 11th century.Part II: An Arabic Naskhi script (large, bold) and Hebrew (Oriental) square of approximately 12th to 13th century.
BM/BL in-house. Spine title: 'Commentary on Exodus and Deuteronomy. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2558.'
Between 1000 and 1299
Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 08 July 1882, folio [213v].