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Or 3612

Record Id:
032-003314048
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TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
Or 3612
Title:
Ma᾿ani al-nafs by Baḥya ben Joseph ibn Paḳuda
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
50 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_3612 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1883
End Date:
1883
Date Range:
1883
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Elie Sassoon
ibn Paḳuda, Baḥya ben Joseph, fl 1000-1099
ibn Paḳuda, Baḥya ben Joseph, fl 1000-1099
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 3612

Ma᾿ani al-nafs by Baḥya ben Joseph ibn Paḳuda

Contents

Philosophical writing.

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-50v
Title: Ma᾿ani al-nafs
Title: מעאני אל נפס
Author: Baḥya ben Joseph ibn Paḳuda, active 11th century (ascribed to him) בחיי בן יוסף אבן פקודה

Copied in 1883 from a manuscript now preserved in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 50 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 215 × 175 mm.
Dimensions (written): 185 × 110 mm.
Foliation:

50 folios (+ 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 18 at the end).

Contemporary Hebrew foliation.

Collation

Quires of 12 leaves each.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 22

Written lines: 22

Uniform layout.

Modern lined paper notebook, sewn on tapes and these stuck to inner boards.

Running titles.

Catchwords from page to page.

Letters suspended from ruled lines.

Hand(s)

Semi-cursive Hebrew script of the 19th century. Copied by Elie Sassoon: inscribed, back flyleaf (xviii)v.

Additions:

Binding

Post-1600. Red blind tooled binding.

Spine: 'Bahya ben Joseph. Ma'ani An-Rafs. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Or. 3612.'

History

Origin: ; France

Provenance and Acquisition

Elie Sassoon: inscribed, back flyleaf (xviii)v.

Elie Sassoon: purchased from him by the British Museum on 29 October 1888: inscribed, back flyleaf (xviii)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_3612 (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. 899.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL