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032-003313934
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Title:
Commentary on Maimonides' Mishneh Torah
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
273 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1450
End Date:
1474
Date Range:
1450-1474
Era:
CE
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Names:
Samuel Schönblum
עלאי אל דין אלמווקת
῾Ala ud-Din al-Muwaḳḳit
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Add MS 27294

Commentary on Maimonides' Mishneh Torah

Contents

A commentary on parts of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-273v
Title: Perush Mishneh Torah [Sefer ha-mada῾]
Title: פרוש משנה תורה [ספר מדע]
Author: ῾Ala ud-Din al-Muwaḳḳit עלאי אל דין אלמווקת

A Judeo-Arabic commentary on the first four chapters of Maimonides Sefer ha-mada῾, with various additions by redactor(s).

The commentary on the second chapter begins on folio 47r, on the third, folio 55r, on the fourth, folio 161v.

Maimonides' text appears in an Arabic form.

ff. 1r-72r
Title: Sefer ha-mada῾
ff. 72r-170r
Title: Sefer ahavah
ff. 170r-411v
Title: Sefer zemanim

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 273 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 170 × 120 mm.
Dimensions (written): 125 × 95 mm.
Foliation:

273 folios (+ 2 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each, signed at the end.

Condition

Tidemarks throughout at head and foot, with loss of (carbon) ink in these areas.

Repaired and infilled before rebinding.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 17 22

Written lines: 17 22

Uniform layout.

Catchwords on most of the versos.

Chapter numbers and initials given in larger characters.

Some marginalia lost to trimming.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive script of the third quarter of the 15th century.

Additions:

Folio 1r: Hebrew description of the volume.

Folio 2r: contains dates according to six different eras which are only partly legible.

Binding

BM in-house. Boxed.

Spine: ''Alau 'L-Din Al-Muwakkit. Comm. On The Sepher Ham-Madda'. Arab. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,294.'

History

Origin: 3rd quarter of the 15th century ; Africa, N.?

Provenance and Acquisition

Samuel Schönblum: purchased from him by the British Museum on 14 April 1866: inscribed, front flyleaf (ii)v.

1866-04-14

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_27294 (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. 498.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL