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Title

  • Laws of shehitah

Created / Published

  • 1397.

Headings

  • -  Manuscripts, Hebrew--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Formerly MS Hebr. 3
  • -  Karaite Oriental square script.
  • -  Description based on finding aid
  • -  [הלכות שחיטה מאת ישראל המערבי] Laws of shehitah (ritual slaughter) by the Karaite Israel b. Samuel Maghrebi. Translated from the original Arabic into Hebrew. This translation is different from the one printed at the end of Sefer Dod Mordecai (Ramle 1966). Incomplete. Beginning missing and a lacuna in the middle of chapter nine. Copied by Joseph b. Abraham b. Joseph and completed on 29 Tammuz 5157=1397. Colophon (f. 13r): [ה] כותב יוסף הצעיר בן כ"ר אברהם בן כ"ר יוסף תנצב"ה ונכתב ביום ה' [ב]שבוע בחודש תמוז בכ"ט יום בו שנת הקנ"ז לבריאת העולם וסימן אברהם ז"ק"ן בא בימים ובאא"ב.

Medium

  • 13 ff. Paper. ; 19 x 14 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • LC Hebr. Ms 184
  • Micro Orien. Hebr. 880/87
  • Micro Orien. Hebr. 851/1

Repository

  • Library of Congress African and Middle Eastern Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2018757802

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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