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Or 2746

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032-003314041
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Or 2746
Title:
Collection of works in Judeo-Arabic
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
278 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2746 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1500-1599
Era:
CE
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Names:
Moses ben Joseph al-Belidah
Moses ben Joseph al-Belidah (attributed to him)
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
N[icholas] Mavrocodato
Saliman Al-Najar
Sa῾id ben ῾Imran Al-Ḳana
Yaḥya ben Saliman
Yosef ben Sa῾id Al-Raḥabi
Zekhariah ben Shelomoh
אלבלידה, משה בן יוסף
אלבלידה, משה בן יוסף (מחבר משוער)
זכריה בן שלמה
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2746

Collection of works in Judeo-Arabic

Contents

A series of works in Judeo-Arabic.

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew

ff. 1r-12v
Title: Perush Moreh nevukhim be-῾aravit
Title: פרוש מורה נבוכים בערבית
Author: Moses ben Joseph al-Belidah אלבלידה, משה בן יוסף
Language(s): Judeo-Arabic
ff. 13r-66r
Title: Perush ῾al midrash ha-ḥefets
Title: פרוש על מדרש החפץ
Author: Zekhariah ben Shelomoh זכריה בן שלמה
Language(s): Judeo-Arabic

Exodus begins on folio 41r; Leviticus, folio 51v; Numbers, folio 56v; Deuteronomy, folio 61v.

ff. 66v-80r
Title: Perush Ketuvim (Ekhah)
Title: פרוש כתובים (איכה)
Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 80r-83r
Title: Perush Ketuvim (Ekhah)
Title: פרוש כתובים (איכה)
Author: Moses ben Joseph al-Belidah אלבלידה, משה בן יוסף
ff. 83r-83r
Title: She᾿elot u-teshuvot
Title: שאלות ותשובות

A short fragment only.

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic
ff. 83r-83v
Title: Be᾿ur ῾asarah devarim she-nivre᾿u ben ha-shemashot
Title: באור עשרה דברים שנבראו בין השמשות
Author: Moses ben Joseph al-Belidah אלבלידה, משה בן יוסף
Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 84r-93v
Title: She᾿elot u-teshuvot
Title: שאלות ותשובות

Contains five different sections, beginning on folio 84r, 86r, 87v, 89r and 93r.

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew
ff. 94r-100r
Title: Perush Sifra
Title: פרוש ספרא
Author: Moses ben Joseph al-Belidah (attributed to him) אלבלידה, משה בן יוסף (מחבר משוער)
Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 100v-102v
Title: She᾿elot ba-῾inyan beri᾿at ha-adam shebe-vereshit
Title: שאלות בענין בריאת האדם שבבראשית
Language(s): Judeo-Arabic
ff. 103r-108v
Title: Perush Mishneh Torah le-Rambam (Hilkhot Talmud Torah)
Title: פרוש משנה תורה לרמב"ם (הלכות תלמוד תורה)

A large portion of a commentary in a form of questions and answers.

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic
ff. 109r-112v
Title: Perush Sifre miḳra be-ḥeser ṿe-yeter
Title: פרוש ספרי מקרא בחסר ויתר
Author: Moses ben Joseph al-Belidah אלבלידה, משה בן יוסף

Imperfect at the beginning.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic
ff. 113r-148v
Title: Derash yelamdenu
Title: דרש ילמדינו
Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 149r-168v
Title: Perush Moreh nevukhim (ḥeleḳ 1)
Title: פרוש מורה נבוכים בערבית (חלק א)

A series of question and answers on part 1 of Maimonides' Moreh nevukhim.

The name of Musa al-Levi al-῾Arusi for whom al-Belidah prepared the collection of questions and answers is also named at the beginning of this section, in a partially erased entry.

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic
ff. 169v-170r
Title: She᾿elot u-teshuvot
Title: שאלות ותשובות
Language(s): Judeo-Arabic
ff. 170v-175r
Title: Perush ha-mishnah le-Rambam (mavo)
Title: פרוש המשנה לרמב"ם (מבוא)
Author: Maimonides, Moses משה בן מימון

Maimonides' Hebrew preface to his Commentary on Mishnah, followed by a commentary in Arabic.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic
ff. 175v-222v
Title: She᾿elot u-teshuvot ῾al Mishneh Torah le-Rambam
Title: שאלות ותשובות על משנה תורה לרמב"ם

A portion of a series of questions and answers on Maimonides' Mishneh Torah. Defective at the end.

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew
ff. 223r-227v
Title: She᾿elot u-teshuvot ῾al Perush ha-mavo le-Mishneh Torah le-Rambam
Title: שאלות ותשובות על פרוש המבוא למשנה תורה לרמב"ם
Language(s): Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew

Followed by questions and answers on Maimonides' Commentary on Masekhet Berakhot and other topics.

ff. 228r-278v
Title: Perush Sefer ha-mitsṿot le-Rambam
Title: פרוש ספר המצוות לרמב"ם
Author: Moses ben Joseph al-Belidah (attributed to him) אלבלידה, משה בן יוסף (מחבר משוער)

A commentary on Maimonides' Sefer ha-mitsṿot in the form of questions and answers, incomplete.

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 278 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 275 × 200 mm.
Dimensions (written): 230 × 150 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Leaves on guards.

Condition

Darkening paper due to damp, mould and ink spread.

Repaired, infilled and edge guarded before rebinding.

Occasional losses of text from damp.

Defective at the beginning and at the end.

Folio 268 and 269 badly damaged.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 24 29

Written lines: 24 29

Uniform layout.

Visible mastara ruling.

Larger square initial words.

Catchwords on every verso.

Marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Yemenite semi-cursive script of the 16th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Commentary on Maimonides. Etc. Arabic & Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2746.'

History

Origin: 16th century ; Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Yaḥya ben Saliman, Yosef ben Sa῾id Al-Raḥabi, Saliman Al-Najar: inscibed, folio 181v.

Sa῾id ben ῾Imran Al-Ḳana(?): inscribed, folio 116r.

N[icholas] Mavrocodato: purchased by the British Museum from him on 7 March 1884: 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_2746 (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. 1101.

Funding of Cataloguing

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