Skip to main content

[Explanation of Proverbs I, 6]

 Item
Identifier: Or. 4779 (10)

Scope and Contents

From the Fonds:

The collection contains 50 manuscripts, 21 of which are miscellanies. The total number of texts is 174.

The Karaite manuscripts of Levinus Warner in this collection have introduced Karaite texts to European scholarship and includes important Byzantine manuscripts containing works by Byzantine Karaites and also Karaite Hebrew translations of eleventh-century authors who wrote in Arabic such as Yūsuf al-Basīr and Yeshuʾah ben Yehudah.

Creator

Language of Materials

Hebrew

Physical Description

f 148b-

General

Composed by an anonymous Rabbanite author of the 13th cent. or later. Here Benjamin Espinosa is given as the author.

Repository Details

Part of the Leiden University Libraries Archives & Collections Repository

Contact:
Witte Singel 27
Leiden 2311 BG Netherlands
+31 71 527 2857