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Or 12303

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032-003371522
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Or 12303
Title:
Maimonides' Mishneh Torah (Sifre Madaʿ u-Neziḳin, ḳeṭaʿim)
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
30 folios (iii+30+v)
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1300-1499
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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 12303

Maimonides' Mishneh Torah (Sifre Madaʿ u-Neziḳin, ḳeṭaʿim)

Contents

Fragments from Maimonides' Mishneh Torah (Sefer Madaʿ, Sefer Neziḳin).

Language(s): Hebrew

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 14th-15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 30 folios (iii+30+v)

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Maimonides Mishenh(sic!) Thōrāh. Hebrew. British Library Oriental MS 12303.'

History

Origin: 1300-1499 14th-15th century Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1375; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 2 February 1932.

I

Contents

ff. 1r-2v
Author: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 משה בן מימון
Title: קטעים ממנין המצוות
Title: Ḳetaʿim me-Minyan ha-mitsṿot
Incipit: ג. שלא יורה העד בדין זה שהעיד עליו בדיני נפשות
Explicit: הלכות זכייה ומתנה: עניין אלו ההלכות לידע דין זוכה מן ההפקר היאך יקנה ובמה

ff. 3r-3v
Author: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 משה בן מימון
Title: הלכות תלמוד תורה ג:יב-ד:ג
Title: Hilkhot Talmud Torah 3:12-4:3
Incipit: תלמודו מתקיים בידו, אבל הקורא בלחש במהרה הוא

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 2 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 240 × 175 mm.
Dimensions (written): 185 × 133 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Condition

Leaves have been fixed (lined).

All leaves are fragmentary, their measurements are approximate.

Layout

Columns:1

Section headings are in larger characters, coloured.

Iron gall ink corrosion.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square script of the 14th-15th century.

Decoration

Coloured initial words (e.g. ff. 1r, 1v, 2r).

Floral motifs as grafic fillers.

Floral motifs above numerals.

Additions:

II

Contents

ff. 3r-3v
Author: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 משה בן מימון
Title: הלכות תלמוד תורה ג:יב-ד:ג
Title: Hilkhot Talmud Torah 3:12-4:3
Incipit: תלמודו מתקיים בידו, אבל הקורא בלחש במהרה הוא

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 1 folio (f. 3)
Dimensions (leaf): 240 × 175 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil, continuous with previous part.

Collation

Condition

Leaf has been fixed (lined).

Leaf is fragmentary, its measurements are approximate.

Layout

Columns:1

Section heading is in larger characters, coloured.

Even left margin.

Marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square script of the 14th-15th century.

Decoration

Coloured initial word (f. 3r).

Additions:

III

Contents

ff. 4r-8v
Author: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 משה בן מימון
Title: הלכות דעות ב:ג-ה:ח
Title: Hilkhot Deʿot 2:3-5:8
Incipit: כעס אין חייהם חיים, לפיכך צוו להתרחק מן הכעס עד שינהיג עצמו

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 4 folios (ff. 4-8)
Dimensions (leaf): 242 × 179 mm.
Dimensions (written): 192 × 145 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil, continuous with previous part.

Collation

No catchwords.

Condition

Leaves have been fixed (lined).

Iron gall ink corrosion.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 27

Written lines: 27

A few marginal notes.

Even left margins.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square script of the 14th-15th century.

Decoration

Coloured initial words (e.g. ff. 4v, 5r, 7v).

Floral motifs.

Additions:

IV

Contents

ff. 9r-24v
Author: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 משה בן מימון
Title: הלכות נזקי ממון
Title: Hilkhot nizḳe mamon
Incipit: נוגח, וכן בשאר הדברים שהועד בהן עד שימשמשו בו ולא יהיה

Leaves were rebound in the wrong order: Hilkhot Nizḳe mamon: f. 11v (Chapter 1:2-6), f. 11r (Chapter 1:6-10), f. 10v (Chapter 1:10-2:2), f. 10r (Chapter 2:2-8), f. 9v (Chapter 6:1-6-7), f. 9r (Chapter 6:7-11). From f. 12r-16v the leaves are in order: chapter 6:11-9:13. Ff. 17r-23v (Chapter 11:10-14:12). The very end of Hilkhot Nizḳe mamon is on ff. 24r-24v.

Lacuna after f. 16v.

ff. 24v-18v
Author: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 משה בן מימון
Title: הכלות גניבה
Title: Hilkhot genevah

Ff. 24r contains a bit of Hilkhot Genevah (1:3-4) and Hilkhot Nizḳe mamon 14:12-16). F 24v contains the very end of Hilkhot Nizḳe mamon (14:16) and the beginning of Hilkhot Genevah.

Lacuna after f. 24. Ff. 25r-30v: Chapter 2:14-5:12.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 22 folios (ff. 9-30)
Dimensions (leaf): 240 × 175 mm.
Dimensions (written): 190 × 133 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Mostly no catchword, sometimes repetition of the last word on the next folio.

Condition

Leaves have been fixed (lined).

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 20

Written lines: 20

Chapter headings are in larger, hollow characters.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square script of the 14th-15th century.

Additional Information

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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