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032-003312243
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Add MS 14764
Title:
Collection of philosophical works
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
283 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1300-1399
Era:
CE
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Names:
Avraham bar Yosef Hakim
Ibn Tibbon, Shmuel ben Judah, 1150-1230
Ibn Tibbon, Shmuel ben Judah, 1150-1230
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
Payne & Foss
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 14764

Collection of philosophical works

Contents

A collection of philosophical works.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-246r
Title: Moreh nevukhim
Title: מורה נבוכים

In the Hebrew translation of Shmuel Ibn Tibbon. Variant readings and other notes are occasionally found in the margin. Prefixed is an incomplete index of Biblical passages, folios 1v-6v.

Author: Maimonides, Moses משה בן מימון

f. 1v, 2r, 10r, 11v, 12r, 15v, 19v, 26r, 52r, 79v, 82r, 85v, 134v, 152r, 152v, 153v, 161v, 174r, 214r 19 initial-word panels with penwork decoration and pen-flourishing, in mauve, blue and red.

ff. 247v-263r
Title: Ruaḥ ḥen
Title: רוח חן

f. 247v 1 initial-word panel with penwork decoration and pen-flourishing, in red.

ff. 263v-283v
Title: Perush ha-milot ha-zarot be-Moreh nevukhim
Title: פרוש המלות הזרות במורה נבוכים
Author: Ibn Tibbon, Shmuel תבון, שמואל אבן

Incomplete at the beginning and at the end.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 283 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 200 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): 130 × 95 mm.
Foliation:

283 folios (+ 1 unfoliated modern flyleaf at the beginning and 2 at the end).

Collation

Quires of originally 8 leaves each.

Condition

Dirt entry at head.

Damp entry at corners, repaired before rebinding.

Slight tidemarks.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 24

Written lines: 24

Uniform layout.

Visible pricking in outer margins and complete hard-point ruling.

Imperfect at the end.

Hair side and flesh side of folios distinguishable.

The last word of a folio usually repeated at the beginning of the next.

Initial verses written occasionally in red ink.

Gilt edges.

Hand(s)

Sefardi (North African) square and semi-cursive script of the 14th century

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Tractatus Varii. Hebraice. Mus. Brit. Jure Emptionis. 14,764. Plut.'

History

Origin: 14th century ; Africa, N. (Egypt?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Avraham bar Yosef Hakim: inscribed, folio 79r.

1844

Purchased by the British Museum from Payne & Foss: inscribed (folio [284v]).

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_14764 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), no. 909.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL