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Title:
Maimonides' Moreh nevukhim
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
177 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1300-1399
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Giuseppe Almanzi
Luigi da Bologna
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
Shemuel ibn Tibbon
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Maimonides' Moreh nevukhim

Contents

Philosophical writings.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-177v
Title: Moreh nevukhim
Title: מורה נבוכים

In the Hebrew translation of Shemuel ibn Tibbon.

Many corrections have been added in the margin, besides a large number of subsequent readings.

Folios 176v-177v contain an enumeration of the Biblical passages quoted in Moreh nevukhim, not extending beyond the forty-seventh chapter of Part II.

Author: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 משה בן מימון

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 177 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 292 × 220 mm.
Dimensions (written): 200 × 140 mm.
Foliation:

177 folios (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 1 parchment flyleaf at the beginning and 3 modern unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each, marked with catchwords and signatures at the end (only partly preserved).

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 32

Written lines: 32

Uniform layout.

Visible hard-point ruling.

Hair side and flesh side distinguishable.

Titles and inital words in larger characters, occasionally ornamented in pen and ink (e.g., 3r, 63r)

Hand(s)

Sefardi square script, unpunctuated, of the 14th century.

Additions:

A recipe to prepare ink: front flyleaf (iv)v.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Maimonides. Moreh Han-Nebuchim. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,068.'

History

Origin: 1300-1399 14th century Iberian Peninsula?

Provenance and Acquisition

M[...]a bat Elisha: inscribed, folio 1r.

Luigi da Bologna, a converted Jew working for the Inquisition as censor (active 1590-1609): inscribed with his name as censor, 1601 (folio 175v); see [Popper_1969] 104, and appendix § 112-117.

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 173: his library including 322 medieval Hebrew manuscripts were purchased en bloc by the British Museum in October 1865 for £1,000 through Asher & Co., Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum: inscribed, back flyleaf (i)v

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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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27068 (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. 910.

Bibliography

    [Popper_1969] William POPPER. 'The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger.'New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL