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Or 2225
Title:
A portion of Maimonides' Commentary on the Mishnah of Seder Ṭoharot, in Judeo-Arabic
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
170 folios
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Languages:
Judeo-Arabic
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
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CE
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Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
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Or 2225

A portion of Maimonides' Commentary on the Mishnah of Seder Ṭoharot, in Judeo-Arabic

Contents

A portion of Maimonides' Commentary on the Mishnah of Seder Ṭoharot, in Judeo-Arabic.

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-171v
Title: Perush Seder ṭoharot
Title: פרוש סדר טהרות
Author: Maimonides, Moses משה בן מימון

Folio 1 contains a fragment of hte introduction.

Folio 1* opens the Seder with a fragment of Kelim, XIII-XIV.

Folio 169 closes with a portion of Oḳetsim, III.

Filiation:

Folio 170 originally belonged to a volume of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 170 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 277 × 205 mm.
Dimensions (written): 240 × 180 mm.
Foliation:

170 folios (+ 2 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end). The second leaf is marked as 1*.

Collation

Indeterminable.

Condition

Defective at the beginning and at the end.

Largely defective and mutilated.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 30

Written lines: 30

Visible mastara ruling.

Chapter numbers given in large characters, decorated with pen and ink designs.

A few marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Yemenite semi-cursive and square script of the 15th century.

f. 1 , f. 170 written in other hands of the same date.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'Maimonides' Commentary Seder Taharoth. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2225.'

History

Origin: 15th century ; Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 10 April 1880: inscribed, folio [171v].

1880-04-10

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_2225 (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. 462.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL