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Or 1303

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032-003313971
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Or 1303
Title:
Al-murshid al-khafi by Tanhum ben Joseph of Jerusalem
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
143 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1303 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1871
End Date:
1871
Date Range:
1871
Calendar:
Seleucid
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
M. Jos. Halevy
Tanhum ben Joseph, of Jerusalem, 1220?-1291,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000455704953,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/59877351
Tanhum ben Joseph, of Jerusalem, 1220?-1291,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000455704953,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/59877351
Zekhariah ben Mosheh ben Yosef ha-Levi
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Or 1303

Al-murshid al-khafi by Tanhum ben Joseph of Jerusalem

Contents

Al-murshid al-khafi by Tanhum ben Joseph of Jerusalem

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew

ff. 1r-143v
Title: Al-murshid al-khafi : milon le-milim ba-Mishneh Torah le-Ramba"m
Title: אלמרשד אלכאפי : מלון למלים במשנה תורה לרמב"ם

Copied from a manuscript dated 1938 (1626). Includes on introduction of the scribe.

Author: Tanhum ben Joseph, of Jerusalem, 1220-1291 תנחום בן יוסף, הירושלמי
Incipit: ונעתק מספר המספיק של בית כנסת הרב הגדול ... הר"ר יחיא בן כהר"ר יוסף בן כמוהר"ר צאלח מתושבי צנעא. f. 1r
Colophon: ואלתאריך אל מכתוב בספר שהעתקנו ממנו בתלתא בשבא דהוא יב' יומין בחדש כסליו שנת אתתקלח ... סימן טוב על מריה דוד בן נחום בן עודד בן ישע הלוי ... ואני הכותב ספרא ... כתבתי זה הספר ... לתשוקת החבר הטוב ... זכריה בן משה בן יוסף לבית הלוי... ותהי השלמת המלאכה ... יום ב' יט ימים לחדש אדר א' שנת י'צ'א'ת לישע ע'מי'ך לישע א'ת משיחיך" [ב]קפ"ב לשטרות. f. 143r

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 143 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 315 × 215 mm.
Dimensions (written): 260 × 160 mm.
Foliation:

143 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 2 at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

Condition

Slight tidemarks from damp.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 32 39

Written lines: 32 39

Uniform layout.

Titles and inital words in larger square characters.

Marginal notes.

Catchowords on every page.

Hand(s)

Yemenite semi-cursive script of the 19th century. Zekhariah ben Mosheh ben Yosef ha-Levi: inscribed in the colophon, folio 143r.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Muchtasar Murshid. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1303.'

History

Origin: 1871 Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

M. Jos. Halevy: purchased from him by the British Museum on 10 October 1874: inscribed, back flyleaf (ii)v.

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=Or_1303 (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. 966.

Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing

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