CUL, T-S Ar. 20.5

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T-S Ar. 20.5

CUL (Cambridge, United Kingdom)

Document

Verso: Book list in Arabic letters listing Epistles of the Brethren of Purity. Report of a warraq workshop (copyist, bookbinder and vocalizer).

Book list

Document Definition

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Document

Content Description

  • Book list
  • Account

  • Arabic
  • Judeo-Arabic

verso

1. كتب الله سلامته (top left corner)

2. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

3. الذي كتب وجلد من الرسايل وأُنقد

4. رسالة العدد جزئين مجلدين ثمانية وعشرين كراسّة

5. رسالة الأخلاق جزئين مجلدين ستة وعشرين كراسة

6. الارا والمذاهب جزئين مجلدين خمسة وعشرين كراسة

7. السحر والغرائب جزئين مجلدين ثلثة وتلثين كراسة

8. الطريق إلى الله ومائية

9. الاعـتقاد جزء واحد مجلد عشرة كراريس

10. رسالة [...] القيامة جز واحد مجلد سبعة كراريس

1. May God grant him safety 

2. In the name of God the Beneficent, the Merciful.

3. What has been copied and bound from the epistles and were paid for:

4. (1) Epistle of Arithmetic (risālat al-adad), two bound booklets, 28 quires;

5. (2) Epistle of Virtues (risālat al-akhlāq), two bound booklets, 26 quires;

6. (3) Opinions and Doctrines (al-ārāʿ wal-madhāhib), two bound booklets, 25 quires;

7. (4) Magic and Marvel (as-Siḥr wal-Gharāʾīb), two bound booklets, 33 quires;

8. (5) The path to God and on the essence

9. (6) of the conviction [i.e. what it means to accept something as true] one bound booklet, 10 quires;

10. Epistle [...] (7) the Resurrection (al-Qiyāma), one bound booklet, 7 quires.

Physical Description

80 mm

140 mm

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Fragment of a leaf/sheet

Only approximately half of the original document.

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Paper

Brown-Grey

Unidentified

No pricking

No ruling

  • Text on recto and verso
  • Additional blocks of text

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No graphic marks of text navigation

Arabic

Oriental

No vowels or accents

Marginal

Unbound

Bibliography


  • Baker, Colin F., Polliack, Meira, 2001, Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections. Arabic Old Series (T-S Ar.1a-54), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 86.

  • Link to the shelfmark entry in the Princeton Genizah Project database: T-S Ar.20.5

17 Jul 2023, noon
9 Jul 2023, 10:11 a.m. by Fabio Ioppolo
11 Jun 2024, 8:40 a.m. by Fabio Ioppolo
Daniel E. M. Isaac; Wissem Gueddich;
Fabio Ioppolo; Wissem Gueddich; Ezra Stadler;
Daniel E. M. Isaac, Wissem Gueddich, 'CUL, T-S Ar. 20.5', in: Jewish Book Culture Database, General Editors: Ronny Vollandt and Judith Olszowy-Schlanger. Consulted online at https://www.jewishbookculture.com/data/items/347/ on 2025-04-21.
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