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Add MS 15421
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- Add MS 15421
- Title:
- A revised recension of Maimonides' Sefer mitsṿot
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- 140 folios
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Add MS 15421
A revised recension of Maimonides' Sefer mitsṿot
Contents
Summary of Contents: The revised recension of Maimonides' Sefer mitsṿot in the Hebrew translation of Mosheh ibn Tibon.Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 1r-140vTitle: Sefer ha-mitsṿotTitle: ספר המצותFolios 3-11 contain an index of the mitsṿot in their numerical order. A note on the margin of folio 11r states that the last 80 entries have been omitted by the scribe, because they were missing in the codex from which he copied.
Folio 128-129 contain an index of the mitsṿot in the order in which they occure in the parashayot of the Pentateuch.
Colophon: תם ונשלם. התהלה ושבח לבורא עולם. על ידי יחיאל ח"י הסופר בכ"ר יואב כת"ב ע"ה מביתאל פה בריאיטי שנת קפ"א לפרט ג' בסיון במצות הנכבד כמה"ר משה הרופא יר"א בכמ"ר יצחק זצ"ל. ברוך נותן ליעף כח. f. 139vPhysical Description
Parchment codex of the 15th century.Form: codexMaterial: parchmentExtent: 140 foliosDimensions (leaf): 232 × 166 mm.Dimensions (written): 141 × 100 mm.Foliation:140 folios (+ 3 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).
Collation
14 quires of 10 leaves each.
Catchwords at the end of the quires, partly cut away.
Layout
Columns:1
Ruled lines: 25
Written lines: 25
Uniform layout. Visible pricking and ruling with a hard-point object.
Last line written outside the ruling.
Marginal notes, occasionally mutilated in the trimming.
Sections enumerated with Hebrew letters in larger characters.
Hand(s)
Italian semi-cursive script of the 15th century.
Binding
Post-1600. Black leather.
Spine title: 'Maimonides. Liber Preceptorum. Ex Versione Mosis ben Tibbon. Hebraice. Mus. Brit. Jure Emptionis 15,421. Plut.'
History
Origin: 1421 ItalyProvenance and Acquisition
Eli'ezer bar Yehudah ha-Rofe of L'Aquila: inscribed (folio 1r).
A contract of sale, folio 140r, of the present manuscript by Refa'el ben Yitsḥaḳ ha-Rofe of Rieto to the heirs of Mosheh ha-Rofe of L'Aquila.
Several censor's erasures, by Andrea del Monte (active in the second half of the 16th century), inscribed (folio 139v).
Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849): purchased from him by the British Museum on 18 January 1845, sale lot 295: inscribed (folio f. 140v ).
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=Add_MS_15421 (digital images currently unavailable)
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. 505.Funding of Cataloguing
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