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Or 10054

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Or 10054
Title:
Sefer ha-mitsṿot by Moses Maimonides (copy)
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
91 folios (xxvi+91+xxiii)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10054 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1800
End Date:
1923
Date Range:
1800-1923
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
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Or 10054

Sefer ha-mitsṿot by Moses Maimonides (copy)

Contents

Sefer ha-mitsṿot by Moses Maimonides, three volume-copy of a 2-volume medieval manuscript in Parma.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-91r
Author: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 משה בן מימון
Title: ספר המצוות
Title: Sefer ha-mitsṿot

Or 10054 reaches up to the beginning of The list of Commandments; Or 10055 contains positive commandments; MS Or 10056 contains prohibitions.

Copied from MS Parma 2460 (De-Rossi 221) and from MS Parma 2616 (De-Rossi 1234).

Yitshak Hirshenzohn, who is mentioned on the spine, was probably the first owner and copied the MS for himself.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th-20th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Squared paper
Extent: 91 folios (xxvi+91+xxiii)
Dimensions (leaf): 158 × 104 mm.
Dimensions (written): 158 × 104 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pen. Numerous unfoliated blank leaves at the beginning and at the end.

Collation

No catchwords, no signatures.

Condition

Good condition.

Layout

Columns:1

Text is only on the verso side of the leaves.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi cursive script of the 19th-20th century.

Probably copied by Yitshak Hirshenzohn.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

Green leather binding, blind-tooled, gold-tooled, marble paper pastedowns.

Spine: 'Sepher hammiṣvoth. Hebrew. I. Brit. Mus. Oriental 10,056. יצחק הירשענזאהן'

History

Origin: 19th-20th century (before 1924) ;

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 204: inscribed with his name (fol. 1r); purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed on back flyleaf (xxii)v.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and the Catalogue of Hebrew Manuscripts in the Gaster Collection, the British Library, London; preface by Brad Sabin Hill; reproduced from the MS and typescript blue-slips prepared by Jacob Leeven, Joseph Rosenwasser and David Goldstein (London: Hebrew Section. Oriental and India Office Collection, 1996) (unpublished copy is available in the AAS reading room).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10054 (digital images currently unavailable)

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