Or. 8659 (St. Pancras, British Library)
Oriental Manuscripts
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1 copy of Sefer ha-mitsvot
Title: Sefer ha-mitsvot
A fragment, possibly of a Sefer ha-mitsvot (Book of Precepts) in Judaeo-Persian, containing a polemical tract on the prophethood of Moses and the Jewish religion ff. 2v-9r, probably part of the introduction, and an exposition of the Biblical commandment of circumcision f. 10 and f. 1
Folio 1 is bound out of order and should follow immediately after Folio 10
Language(s): Judaeo-Persian
References
For a more detailed description see Meredith-Owens 1968, page 41.
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: 10 ff
Dimensions (leaf): 17.4 × 13.6 cm.
History
Origin: 12th-13th century CE
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on G. M. Meredith-Owens: Handlist of Persian manuscripts 1895-1966. London, 1968, with additional enhancements.
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