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IO Islamic 3679
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- Reference (shelfmark):
- IO Islamic 3679
- Title:
- Dal᾿alah al-ha᾿irin by Maimonides
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- Oriental Manuscripts
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- Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 192 folios
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- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=IO_Islamic_3679 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Judeo-Arabic
- Scripts:
- Hebrew
- Start Date:
- 1380
- End Date:
- 1380
- Date Range:
- 1380
- Era:
- CE
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
IO Islamic 3679
Dal᾿alah al-ha᾿irin by Maimonides
Contents
Guide for the Perplexed by Maimonides in Judeo-Arabic.
Language(s): Judeo-Arabic
ff. 1r-192vTitle: Dal᾿alah al-ha᾿irinTitle: דלאלת אלחאיריןOne of the earliest dated and complete manuscripts of the Guide for the Perplexed in Judeo-Arabic, and one of the earliest decorated or illuminated manuscripts in a Jewish language other than Hebrew or Aramaic. It is also one of the earliest surviving decorated Hebrew manuscripts from Yemen, from the late 14th century.
The manuscript was acquired by the Anglican missionary Joseph Wolff in the early 19th century, who apparently gave it to Sir Thomas Baring, grandfather of Lord Northbrook, who deposited it in the India Office in 1877.
Colophon: נשלם זה הספר ביום חמישי דהוא יום ששה ועשרים לירח סיון שנת א'תרצ"א לשטרות במדינה אלטוילה יהא סימן טוב על מריה דויד בן סעיד בן דויד בן שלמה בן מנצור בן סעיד בן יחיה בן דוד בן כת'יר בן דוד בן יוסף בר נטרא הידוע אלענסי והכותב שלום ב"ר עזרא בן שלום בן עזרא בן שלום בן אבו אלסעד בן שלום בן עודד בן זכריה בן יעקב בן יוסף בן דוד בן שמריה הידוע אלענסי בן יוסף הקנזי. f. 192rPhysical Description
Paper codex of the 14th century.Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport:Extent: 192 foliosDimensions (leaf): 345 × 240 mm.Dimensions (written): 300 × 225 mm.Foliation:192 folios (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end).
Collation
Quires of mostly 10 leaves each, marked with signatures at the beginning.
Condition
Damp at foredge, paper soft at front.
Small edge tears throughout.
Usage stains.
Slight worming.
Layout
Columns:1
Ruled lines: 35
Written lines: 35
Uniform layout.
Ruled with mastara.
Larger headings and initial words, mostly highlighted in red ink, but also partly in yellow and blue.
Numerous marginal notes and comments, in various hands.
Hand(s)
Yemenite semi-cursive and square script of the 14th century. Shalom ben ῾Ezra al-῾Anasi: inscribed in the colophon, folio 192r.
Additions:Daṿid ben Sa῾id al-῾Anasi: inscribed in the colophon, folio 192r.
Folio 192r: three records of birth, Se῾adyah ben Daṿid (1386), Yudah ben David (1402), and David ben Se῾adyah (1413).
Folio 1r: a record of sale between Ya῾akov ben Yehudah al-Habishi and Ibrahim ben Yosef al-Sarim.
Binding
BM in-house. Fragments of old leather blind-tooled binding currently stored in a separate folder.
Boxed.
History
Origin: ; Yemen (At-Tawila)Provenance and Acquisition
Lord Northbrook: deposited by him in the India Office in 1877: inscribed, folio [193].
1877Record 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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