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Or 14061

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Or 14061
Title:
Moreh nevukhim by Maimonides
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
248 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1325
End Date:
1374
Date Range:
1325-1374
Era:
CE
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Names:
Bekhor Levi
Daniyel Valentin
David Solomon Sassoon
Leṿi ben Yitsḥaḳ ben Karo
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
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Or 14061

Moreh nevukhim by Maimonides

Contents

Philosophical writing.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-248v
Title: Moreh nevukhim
Title: מורה נבוכים

An introduction of Yehuda ibn Tibbon, the translator, folios 2v-8v; Maimonides' letter to Yosef ben Yehudah, folios 8v-9r.

Part 3 of the work is incomplete.

Author: Maimonides, Moses משה בן מימון

1 full-page decorated initial-word panel, in colours and gold. f. 1v

1 full-page miniature of a coat of arms. f. 156v

2 heraldic golden lion in panels.

ff. 4v-5r

Numerous decorated initial-word panels accompanied with foliate scrolls, in colours and gold.

Numerous initial-word panels decorated with penwork and pen-flourishing.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 248 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 300 × 210 mm.
Dimensions (written): 195 × 140 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

22 quires: inine (folios 1-9), ii10 (folios 10-19), iii-vii12 (folios 20-79), viii12-3 (folios 80-88), ix-xiii12 (folios 89-148), xiv8 (folios 149-156), xv12 (folios 157-168), xvi10 (folios 169-178), xvii-xx12 (folios 179-226), xxi10 (folios 227-236), xxii12 (folios 237-248).

Catchwords.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 23

Written lines: 23

Uniform layout.

Titles and inital words in larger characters.

Visible vertical hard-point ruling and pricking visible.

Flesh and hair side are distinguishable.

Some folios are mutilated (e.g. folios 3, 6, 56, 59, 66, 67, 84, 101, 111, 115, 132, 179, 188, 192).

Incomplete at the end.

Hand(s)

Sefardi square and semi-curive scripts of the 14th century. Leṿi ben Yitsḥaḳ ben Karo of Salamanca.

Binding

Post-1600. Brown leather, gold tooled, manuscript number of the Sassoon collection on the spine.

History

Origin: 2nd and 3rd quarter of the 14th century ; Spain, N. E. (Catalonia)

Provenance and Acquisition

Coat of arms of the royal family of Leon and Castile: depicted (folios 1v, 4v, 5r, 156v).

Daniyel Valentin?: inscribed with his name in a purchase note (folio 1r).

Bekhor Levi of Constantinople, court physician of Sultan Abd el-Hamid (d. around 1899): see Sassoon, 1932. Probably based on the note which has been partially cut off (folio 88v).

David Solomon Sassoon (b. 1880, d. 1942), book collector: in his collection (no. 1047); his book plate (inner front cover); his binding; his sale, Sotheby's Zurich 1975, lot 17.

Remains of a note in Hebrew (folio 88r, partially cut off).

1982

Acquired by the British Library in 1982.

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_14061 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    David Solomon Sassoon, Ohel Dawid. Descriptive Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the Sassoon Library, London, 2 vols (London: Oxford University Press, 1932), II, pp. 996-98.
    Sotheby's, Catalogue of thirty-eight highly important Hebrew and Samaritan manuscripts from the collection formed by the late David Solomon Sassoon... : which will be sold at auction ... on Wednesday 5th November 1975 (Zu¨rich: Sotheby, 1975), p. 61 (lot 17).
    David Goldstein, Hebrew Manuscripts from the Sassoon Collection: an Exhibition in the British Library, 10 August-31 December 1982 (London: The British Library, 1982). [exhibition notes]
    Katrin Kogman-Appel, 'Tzurat ha-Behemot we-shear nefesh hayyah we-tzurot ha-ilanot we-deshim. Itturim be-kitvei yad sfaradiyyim shel sifrei ha-Rambam' Peamim 97 (2004), 27-62 (pp. 56-57).
    Ilana Tahan, Hebrew Manuscripts: The Power of Script and Image (London, British Library, 2007), pp. 126-27.

Funding of Cataloguing

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