Middle Karaim
Manuscripts
Summary
F305-90: Translations of Biblical texts into North-Western Karaim: The Latter Prophets, The Twelve Minor Prophets, the Sifrei Emet (Psalms, Proverbs, Job), and the Five Megillot (Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther)
- Language
- North-Western Karaim
- Detailed Content
Book of Isaiah 1r–64r
Book of Jeremiah 65r–136v
Book of Ezekiel 137r–201r
Book of Hosea 202r–211r
Book of Joel 211r–216v
Book of Amos 216v–221r
Book of Obadiah 221r–222r
Book of Jonah 222v–224v
Book of Micah 224v–229r
Book of Nahum 229v–231v
Book of Habakkuk 231v–234v
Book of Zephaniah 234r–237r
Book of Haggai 237r–239r
Book of Zechariah 239r–249r
Book of Malachi 249v–252v
Table of contents 253r–253v
Book of Psalms 254r–333r
Book of Proverbs 334r–360v
Book of Job 361r–391v
Song of Songs 392r–397r
Book of Ruth 397r–401r
Book of Lamentations 402r–407v
Book of Ecclesiastes 408r–418v
Book of Esther 420r–430v- Notes
- Country, Settlement
- Vilnius, Lithuania
- Repository
- Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences in Vilniuse, Lithuania
- Shelfmark
- F305-90
- Keywords
-
Bible--Versions, Karaim
- Object Type
- Codex
- Support
- Cream-coloured paper
- Medium
- Ink:
black, red
- Support Dimensions (mm)
- ×
- Text-block Dimensions (mm)
- ×
- Foliation
- —
- Folios
- 430+4
- Layout
Written in one column with 23 lines per page
- Catchwords
- Catchwords on each folio verso
- Watermarks
- —
- Binding
Sewn binding
- State of Preservation
- Good, the text is clearly legible
- Date of Copying
- 19th/20th century
- Copyist
- Zevulun ben Chanania Rojecki
- Translator
- Zevulun ben Chanania Rojecki (born between 1842 and 1844, died 1923),
- Place of Copying
- Panevėžys (?)
- Script
- Hebrew (Tiberian vocalisation)
- Script Type
- —
- Text Language
- North-Western Karaim
Hebrew
- Creation
-
The text was created either in the end of the 19th century or in the beginning of the 20th century most likely in Panevėžys
. - Ownership
- Zevulun ben Chanania Rojecki (born between 1842 and 1844, died 1923)
Szymon (Szemaja) Firkowicz (1897–1982)
Manuscript description by
Michał Németh and Anna Sulimowicz-Keruth
Digital edition by
Zsuzsanna Johan, Magda Ebo-Żurek, Michał Németh and Anna Sulimowicz-Keruth
- Citation
- Zsuzsanna Johan, Magda Ebo-Żurek, Michał Németh and Anna Sulimowicz-Keruth 2023. ‘A digital edition of the Karaim biblical manuscript F305-90’, in László Károly and Michał Németh (eds) A database of Middle Turkic documents. Uppsala: Department of linguistics and philology. Accessed 20 May 2024 . https://middleturkic.lingfil.uu.se/manuscripts/middle-karaim/F305-90
- Licensing
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International