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Or 10043

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Or 10043
Title:
Maimonides' Mishneh Torah
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
270 folios (iii+270+ii)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Persian
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Start Date:
1550
End Date:
1550
Date Range:
1550
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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 10043

Maimonides' Mishneh Torah

Contents

SeferʾAhavah - Sefer Ḳedushah from Maimonides' Mishneh Torah.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judaeo-Persian

ff. 1r-1
Author: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 משה בן מימון
Title: משנה תורה (ספר אהבה-קדושה)
Title: Mishneh Torah (Sefer ʾAhavah- Sefer Ḳedushah)

Contains: Sefer ʾAhavah (Hilkhot Tefilin, mezuzah ṿe-Sefer Torah 1:14) - Sefer Ḳedushah (Hilkhot Iśure Biʾah 18:14).

Hilkhot Maʾakhalot aśurot 2:13-4:17 are bound at the head of the manuscript.

Several translations into Persian are in the margins and between the lines.

Colophon: "נשלמה זה ארבעה ספרים ברחמי שמיא ליום שני בשבה דהוא ארבע יומין לירח טבת על יד הצעיר העני והנאמן שר שלום בן ה'ה'ה'ה'ה' רבי ומראי ר' שמואל נ"ע דמתקליב מ’ עמראני זלה"ה דשנת אלפא ותמני מאה ושיתין וחד שנין לשטרות" f. 243v
ff. 1r-40r
Title: Sefer ʾAhavah

Ff. 1r-19v: Hilkhot Tefilin, mezuzah ṿe-Sefer Torah; ff. 19v-23r: Hilkhot Tsitsit; ff. 23r-37r: Hilkhot Berakhot; ff. 37r-40r: Hilkhot Milah.

ff. 41v-165r
Title: Sefer Zemanim

Ff. 42r-89v: Hilkhot Shabat; ff. 89v-101r: Hilkhot ʿEruvin; ff. 101r-103r: Hilkhot Shevitat ʿaśor; ff. 103r-115r: Hilkhot Shevitat yom ṭov; ff. 115r-124v: Hilkhot Ḥamets u-matsah; ff. 124v-132r: Hilkhot Shofar ṿe-sukah ṿe-lulav; ff. 132r-135r: Hilkhot Sheḳalim; ff. 135v-155v: Hilkhot Ḳidush ha-ḥodesh; ff. 155v-164v: Hilkhot Taʿaniyot.

ff. 165v-243v
Title: Sefer Nashim

Ff. 165v-202r: Hilkhot Ishut; ff. 202r-224r: Hilkhot Gerushin; ff. 224r-236v: Hilkhot Yibum ṿe-ḥalitsah; ff. 236v-239r: Hilkhot Naʿarah betulah; ff. 239r-243v: Hilkhot Śoṭah.

ff. 244v-270v
Title: Sefer Ḳedushah

Ff. 245r-270v: Hilkhot ʾisure biʾah 1:1-18:14.

Incomplete.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Yellowish oriental paper.
Extent: 270 folios (iii+270+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 290 × 192 mm.
Dimensions (written): 205 × 140 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

F. 244r is blank.

Collation

Indeterminable due to too tight binding.

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

Ff. 1-9 and 270: damaged but have been restored (silk gauze).

Usage stains, slight liquid damage.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 23

Written lines: 23

Chapter heading are in slightly larger charaters.

Ruling is visible.

On some of the pages, the words in the last line written diagonally.

Hand(s)

Persian Hebrew square script of the 16th century. The scribe was Śar-Shalom ben Shemuel ʿImrani.

Decoration

Additions:

Scribbles, pen trials in Hebrew script on ff. 40r-41r.

OF. 165r: shetar (legal document) in Persian which mentions among others: Avraham ben Binyamin, and Gamal ben Avraham Kohen Karazoni; witnesses: מ' דוד בן מ' עמראן, יוסף בן אברהם בנימין, יהודה בן יעקב אלישע, אלישע שמחה.

French note on front flyleaf (iii)v: 'No. 29 - Un tome du livre de Harem Bem transcrit [...]'

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Moses Ben Maimūn. Mishneh Torah. III-V. Hebrew & Persian. Brit. Mus. Oriental 10,043.'

History

Origin: 1550

Provenance and Acquisition

Ownership inscription on f. 40r: צריך אדם לכתוב שמו על ספרו שמא יבא מן השוק ויאמר של שלי הוא לפיכך כתבתי שמי על ספרי הצעיר משה בן בה"ר סימן י'צ'ו'

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 94: inscribed with his name on f. 2r; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed on back flyleaf (ii)v.

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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