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Or 2593

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032-003314034
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Or 2593
Title:
Al-murshid al-khafi by Tanhum ben Joseph of Jerusalem
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
138 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2593 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1400-1599
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
Tanhum ben Joseph, of Jerusalem, d 1291,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000455704953,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/59877351,
Tanhum ben Joseph, of Jerusalem, d 1291,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000455704953,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/59877351,
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Or 2593

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-138v
Title: Al-murshid al-khafi : milon le-milim ba-Mishneh Torah le-Ramba"m
Title: אלמרשד אלכאפי : מלון למלים במשנה תורה לרמב"ם

Fragments of an extensive Dictionary of difficult words in Maimonides' Mishneh Torah. The manuscript contains portions of the text from the letters ע to ר, and is imperfect at the beginning and at the end.

Author: Tanhum ben Joseph, of Jerusalem, 1220-1291 תנחום בן יוסף, הירושלמי

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th to 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 138 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 180 × 135 mm.
Dimensions (written): 140 × 95 mm.
Foliation:

138 folios (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each, marked by signatures and catchwords at the end, and also by signatures at the beginning.

Condition

Stained.

Incomplete.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 17

Written lines: 17

Uniform layout.

Titles and inital words in larger square characters.

Marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive script of the 15th to 16th century.

Additions:

Yafet and Yosef: the names marked off on folios 12r, 36v, probably the name of the scribe (Yefet ben Yosef?).

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Dictionary. Hebrew & Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2593.'

History

Origin: 15th-16th century ; Iraq?

Provenance and Acquisition

1882-07-08

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 08 July 1882: 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.

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2593 (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. 967.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL