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Add MS 19783

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032-003371860
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Add MS 19783
Title:
Commentary on the Mishneh Torah by Judah Albotini
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
411 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_19783 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1518
End Date:
1518
Date Range:
1518
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CE
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Names:
Albotini, Judah ben Moses, d 1519,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/000000006697399X,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/22003207
Albotini, Judah ben Moses, d 1519,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/000000006697399X,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/22003207
M. Aschkenazi
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 19783

Commentary on the Mishneh Torah by Judah Albotini

Contents

A commentary on the first three books of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah, by Judah ben Moses Albotini.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-411v
Title: Yesod Mishneh Torah: perush ʿal Mishneh Torah, Sifre Madaʿ, Ahavah ṿe-Zemamin
Title: יסוד משנה תורה : פרוש על משנה תורה, ספרי מדע, אהבה וזמנים
Author: Albotini, Judah ben Moses, -1519 אלבוטוני, יהודה בן משה
Incipit: בשם ההויה שהכל לכבודו ברא אחבר ספר יסוד [משנה תורה] ... חברתיהו אני יהודה בן לאבא ... משה ... בן ... זקני הרב כמוהרר יוסף אבן חייון ז"ל היושב פה ירושלים עיר הקדש ת'ו'ב'ב' והתחלתי בראשון בחדש אדר שנת ה'ר'ע'ח' ליצירה. f. 1r

In the heading of Sefer ahavah the author is called Yehudah ben Mosheh al-Buṭini. Different dates in the year5278 (1518) occur in different places in the volume.

ff. 1r-72r
Title: Sefer ha-mada῾
ff. 72r-170r
Title: Sefer ahavah
ff. 170r-411v
Title: Sefer zemanim

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 411 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 305 × 215 mm.
Dimensions (written): 245 × 175 mm.
Foliation:

411 folios (+ 3 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

Condition

Stained.

Marks of water-damage.

Slighlty worm-eaten.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 40

Written lines: 40

Visible hard-point ruling.

Catchwords on every page.

Chapter numbers and initials given in larger characters.

Occasional diagrams in pen and ink (e.g. 227v-229r, 276r).

Several blank pages (no lacunae in the text).

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive scripts (seven or more different handwritings) of the 16th century.

Additions:

The contents of folio 120, 121 are duplicated on folio 122r.

Binding

Post-1600. Light brown leather, blind tooled. Boxed.

Spine title: 'R. Jehuda ben Mosis Abutini. Commentarius in Maimonidis Jad Chazaka. Hebraice. Mus. Brit. Jure Emptionis. 19,783.'

History

Origin: 1518

Provenance and Acquisition

M. Aschkenazi: purchased by the British Museum from him through D. Nutt on 13 May 1854: inscribed (back flyleaf i verso).

1854-05-13

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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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. 499.

Funding of Cataloguing

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