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Or 10041

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032-003344855
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Or 10041
Title:
Mishneh torah (Sefer ahavah) 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:
123 folios (i+123+i)
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Languages:
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Judeo-Persian
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Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1300-1499
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 10041

Mishneh torah (Sefer ahavah) by Maimonides

Contents

Mishneh torah (Sefer ahavah) by Maimonides

Language(s): Hebrew, Judaeo-Persian

ff. 1r-122r
Language(s): Hebrew, Judaeo-Persian
Author: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 משה בן מימון
Title: משנה תורה (ספר אהבה) ‬
Title: Mishneh torah (Sefer ahavah)

The beginning is incomplete; fol. 122r was supplemented by a later hand.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 14th-15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Oriental paper
Extent: 123 folios (i+123+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 262 × 227 mm.
Dimensions (written): 184 × 154 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals, foliated by Moses Gaster(?) on 19 January 1894.

Collation

Undeterminable (binding too tight).

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

Usage stains.

Fol. 1 is very fragmentary, numerous number of leaves are patched.

Slight water damage.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 17

Written lines: 17

Ruling was done with mastara.

Hand(s)

Oriental square script, unpunctuated.

Decoration

Additions:

Fol. 123 is two small paper slips (129mm×65mm and 210mm×58mm) with Persian translation of several words from Isaiah 3:18-23.

Fol. 122v: scribbles.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Sepher Ahabah. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 10,041.'

History

Origin: 14th-15th century ;

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 80: inscribed on fol. 1r; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed on back flyleaf (ii)v; date of accession: 2 August 1927: inscribed on back flyleaf (i)r.

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

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