British Library, BL Or. 5552.2a

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BL Or. 5552.2a

British Library (London, United Kingdom)

Document

A state document of the Fatimid period.
Reused for the fihrist (book list) of Shemuʾel b. Ḥofni.

Book list

Document Definition

Vertical rectangle

Originally a rotulus

Uncertain

The fragment has a joint with BL, OR 5552.2 which includes part of the Fatimid decree on one side and a quotation of Talmud Bavli in Aramaic on the other side.

Content Description

  • Inventory
  • Book list

  • Arabic
  • Judeo-Arabic

Recto:

1.          פהרסת לר֗ שמואל גאון ז֗צ֗ל֗

2.    כתאב אלשהאדה כתב אלשופעה

3.    כתאב אלהבה כתאב אלרהן {צח} כתאב

4.    אלנפקאת {צח} כתאב אלאדראך {צח} כתאב

5.    אחכאם אלשרוט {צח} כתאב אלחואלה

6.    ואלספאתג כתאב אלצ֗מאן {צח} כתאב

7.    אלעאריה כתאב אלביוע {צח} כתאב

8.    אחכאם אלקנין כתאב לואזם {צח}

9.    אלחוכאם כתאב אחכאם אלמהור

10. כתאב אחכאם אלמציאה כתאב

11. אחכאם אלמגאוראת כתאב

12. אחכאם כרי אלנהאר ואלסואקי

13. ואלאבאר כתאב אלמוארית

14. כתאב אלחגר כתאב אלמלאך

15. כתאב אלוכאלה {צח} כתאב אלוצאיא

16. כתאב אלקסמה {צח} כתאב אלימאן

17. כתאב אלדעאוי ואלבינאת

18. כתאב אלגצב כתאב אל[עיבה] {צח}

Verso:

1.    אלחוקה ופיהא ז מחקקה

2.    [ב]אלכרכה

Notes:

recto, l. 12: אלנהאר= אלאנהאר

recto, l. 16: אלימאן=אלאימאן

After 1034

Date estimated to the 12th century, and estimated from the decease date of Samuel b. Ḥofni (date estimated by FGP). 11th century according to Margoliouth.

Egypt

Alexandria

Physical Description

130.00 mm

95.00 mm

118.23 mm

74.35 mm

Unidentified

Stained

Cut and reused Fatimid chancery document

Visible

Folding lines are visible in two places

Paper

Black (carbon based)

No pricking

No ruling

Text on the verso upside down in respect of the recto

Left-hand margin is not even

  • Hebrew
  • Arabic

Oriental

Non-Square (beinoni)

Current

Scholars' note

Scholars'

The definition refers to the main hand of the list.

3

No vowels or accents

Dots above letters

The interlineal inscription צח appears in some places by the same hand and pen

Bibliography


  • Allony, Nehemya, 2006, The Jewish Library in the Middle Ages. Book Lists from the Cairo Genizah (in Hebrew), Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, pp. 315-316.

  • Gil, Moshe, 1997, In the Kingdom of Ishmael‎ (in Hebrew), Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, vol. 2, #059, pp. 162-163.

  • Margoliouth, George, 1902, "Some British Museum Genizah Texts", The Jewish Quarterly Review, 14 (2), pp. 303-320, p. 311.

  • Rustow, Marina, 2020, The Lost Archive. Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, p. 499 n. 57; p. 515 n. 26.

  • Link to the shelfmark entry in the Princeton Genizah Project database: BL OR 5552.2a

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