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Or 2423

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032-003313988
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Or 2423
Title:
Dal᾿ālat al-ḥā᾿irīn by Maimonides
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
177 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2423 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
N. Mavrocordato
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Or 2423

Dal᾿ālat al-ḥā᾿irīn by Maimonides

Contents

Guide for the Perplexed by Maimonides in Judeo-Arabic.

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-177v
Title: Dal᾿ālat al-ḥā᾿irīn
Title: דלאלת אלחאירין

In Arabic, written in Hebrew script.

Author: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 משה בן מימון

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 177 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 325 × 220 mm.
Dimensions (written): 275 × 170 mm.
Foliation:

177 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each, originally marked by signatures at the beginning and at the end, and catchwords at the end (only partly preserved).

Condition

Incomplete.

Lacuna after folios 1, 2, 6, 9, 54, 61, 81, 87, 107, 114, 125, 160, 162, 170, 174, 176.

Leaves on guards.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 28

Written lines: 28

Uniform layout.

Visible mastara ruling.

Titles and inital words in larger characters, occasionally highlighted in red or green ink.

Hand(s)

Yemenite semi-cursive script, unpunctuated, of the 15th century.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Maimonides. Dalalat Ul-Hairin. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2423.'

History

Origin: 15th century ; Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

N. Mavrocordato: purchased from him by the British Museum on 9 October 1881: inscribed, back flyleaf (i)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_2423 (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. 903.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL