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Title:
Maimonides' Mishneh Torah (Sefer ha-Madaʿ)
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
127 folios (iii+127+ii)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
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Start Date:
1338
End Date:
1338
Date Range:
1338
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Seleucid
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CE
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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 10040

Maimonides' Mishneh Torah (Sefer ha-Madaʿ)

Contents

The introduction of Sefer madaʿ from Maimonides' Mishneh Torah.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-126r
Author: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 משה בן מימון
Title: משנה תורה (ספר מדע, הקדמה)
Title: Mishneh Torah (sefer ha-Madaʻ, haḳdamah)

Incomplete at the beginning, at least 4 leaves are missing (see signatures).

A few marginal notes in Hebrew and in Arabic.

Colophon: "נבצע ... בתרין בשבא תריסר יומין ביר[ח] אדר ראשון שנת אלפא ושית מאה וארבעים ותישע שנין לשטרי במאתא תנעם" f. 126r
ff. 1r-3v
Title: Introduction
ff. 3v-22v
Title: Commandments
ff. 22v-25v
Title: Index
ff. 36r-55r
Title: Sefer ha-Madaʿ

Ff. 36r-55r: Hilkhot yesode Torah; ff. 55r-70v: Hilkhot Deʿot; ff. 70v-83r: Hilkhot Talmud Torah; ff. 83r-108r: Hilkhot Avodah zarah; ff. 108r-125v: Hilkhot Teshuvah.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Oriental paper.
Extent: 127 folios (iii+127+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 230 × 153 mm.
Dimensions (written): 172 × 119 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Leaves and bifolia on guards.

Signatures show that the collation used to contain mostly quires of 10 leaves (signatures in Hebrew characters: ff. 6v, 16v, 26v, 36v, 46v, 56v, 66v). In addition, the innermost bifolium of each quire is kept intact.

Condition

Numerous leaves have been restored (silk gauze).

Usage stains, water damage.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 22

Written lines: 22

Section heading are written in larger charaters.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square script of the 14th century.

Decoration

Additions:

F. 126v: An extract from the beginning of the first chapter of Pirḳe Avot (in an ornamented frame).

Ff. 127r-127v: excerpt from Hilkhot Avodat zarah, Sefer ha-Madaʿ 11:5-11:12.

Note by a later hand in English: 'Thus far the oldest Yemen. MS. with a date. Very important! 1337'

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Moses B. Maimūn. Sepher Maddaʿ. Brit. Mus. Oriental 10,040.'

History

Origin: 1338 Yemen (Tan'am)

Provenance and Acquisition

Catalogue number on front flyleaf (ii)r: 'No. 7'.

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 319 (but the only number in the manuscript is 'No. 7'!); purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed on back flyleaf (ii)v; date of accession 12 March 1928.

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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