نصّ غير أدبيّ: RNL Yevr.-Arab II 223

الوصف

A manuscript of Earlier Prophets (extant from Kings to Isaiah). Dedicated by Ḥusn bnt. Ya'aqov b. Yosef [b. Kushnām "to the qaraite community of Jerusalem... to be kept in the courtyard of Yosef b. Bakhtawayh", a well-known qaraite scholar, whose courtyard/house was probably a library and a study center in 10th-11th century Jerusalem. The dedication of the manuscript is supervised by the qaraite Nasi, Shelomo b. David b. Boaz. The manuscript was dedicated in Egypt, in Tishrei 1328 Sel (September 1016). The scribe of the dedicatory inscription signed his name in AT-BASH, and he is Nissi b. Aharon b. Bakhtawayh, who had other ties with the dedicator, Ḥusn, and was definitely a relative of Yosef b. Bakhtawayh. The inscription can be completed by comaring to the identical dedicatory inscription of a manuscript of Later Prophets by the same protagonists (PGPID 38549). This Ḥusn and Nissi b. Aharon b. Bakhtawayh are also mentioned together in in legal deed from Egypt from 1004 CE (PGPID 7430). To the right of the early 11th century inscription, another inscription dedicates the manuscript to the Ben Samiḥ synaogue in Cairo.