[Collective volume with Karaite texts in Hebrew]
Scope and Contents
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
- Isak Tishbi (Copyist, Person)
Language of Materials
Hebrew
Custodial History
From the library of Jehuda Gur b. Menachem.
Physical Description
1, (289, 1, 35), 1 f
General
Of all Karaite manuscripts in Warner's collection, this volume is the most important (Steinschneider, p. 165). See also Levinus Warner and his Legacy (Leiden 1970), p. 52, with illustration of a folio.
General
Considering the fact that texts by Ibn Ezra and Maimonides are included in this codex, the collection reflects the general Karaite interest in Medieval rationalism.
General
Several purchase notes, the youngest one by Moses Jerushalmi, who bought the MS in 1660.
General
Paper
Creator
- Isak Tishbi (Copyist, Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Leiden University Libraries Archives & Collections Repository
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