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Add MS 11438
Title:
Books IV-VI of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
204 folios
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Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1402
End Date:
1402
Date Range:
1402
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CE
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Names:
Meir ben Baruch, 1215-1293
Meir ben Baruch, 1215-1293
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
Naftali bar Avraham
Shemu᾿el bar Naftali
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Add MS 11438

Books IV-VI of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah

Contents

Summary of Contents: Books IV-VI of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah, with glosses in the style of the Tosafists, followed by Meir of Rothenburg's responses on Sefer nashim.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-204v
Title: Mishneh Torah
Title: משנה תורה
Author: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 משה בן מימון
Author: Meir ben Baruch, of Rothenburg, approximately 1215-1293 מאיר בן ברוך, מרוטנבורג

This manuscript agrees, as far as its contents go, with Harley MS 5702.

There is no detailed table of contents, but each books has an enumeration of the mitsṿot at the beginning.

This manuscript, as well as Harley MS 5702, was probably copied (by persons of learning) from codices prepared by pupils of Meir of Rothenburg. It is possible that this manuscript was copied from Harley 5702.

Filiation: Cf. London BL, Harley MS 5702, 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. 494..
"נכתב יו' ד' פ' ואלה שמו' שנת ק'ס'ג'וקוד' שגמרתי [...] f. 199v "
ff. 1v-79v
Title: Sefer nashim
ff. 79v-158v
Title: Sefer ḳedushah
ff. 158v-196v
Title: Sefer hafla᾿ah
ff. 196v-204v
Title: Teshuvot le-sefer nashim
Author: Meir ben Baruch, of Rothenburg, approximately 1215-1293 מאיר בן ברוך, מרוטנבורג, -1293

Only the first twenty responses are preserved.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the beginning of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Extent: 204 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 325 × 195/250 mm.
Dimensions (written): 200 × 135/140 mm.
Foliation:

204 folios (+ 3 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end).

Collation

Quires of 8 leaves each, marked with catchwords at the end.

Condition

Margins slightly damaged.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 31 51

Written lines: 30 50

In ff. 197-204 each page is divided into 2 columns, with 43 to 50 lines in a full column. The pages contained in folios 1-196, which are undivided, have 30 lines each.

Pricking and plummet ruling (each bifolio on both sides) is visible. Hair-side and flesh-side of folios indistinguishable.

Chapter numbers given in larger characters.

Occasional marginal notes and additions.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi semi-cursive script of the beginning of the 15th century.

Additions:

A description of the manuscript's content in Latin and partly in Hebrew (back flyleaf (ii)v).

Binding

Post-1600. Dark brown leather binding, blind tooled. Boxed.

Spine title: 'Mishneh Torah. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional Ms. 11438.'

History

Origin: 1402 Germany(?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Naftali bar Avraham: inscribed, f. 1r.

Shemu᾿el bar Naftali: inscribed, f. 1v.

Acquisition note on back flyleaf (ii)v: 'Purchased at Evans's 27 July 1838. Lot 1267'.

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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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. 495.

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