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Add MS 19784
Title:
Discussions on the Hilkhot sheḥiṭah of 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:
215 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1600-1799
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
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Not Public Record(s)
Names:
D. Nutt (Aschkenazi)
Shemu᾿el
Yehudah ben Pinḥas
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Add MS 19784

Discussions on the Hilkhot sheḥiṭah of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah

Contents

Summary of Contents: Discussions on the Hilkhot sheḥiṭah of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah, by Rabbi Shemu᾿el, with additional expositions by Yehudah ben Pinḥas.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-215v
Title: Hilhot sheḥiṭah
Title: הלכות שחיטה

Folio 3v contains a poem (in continuation with the title page) in Aramaic, composed by Yehudah ben Pinḥas (perhaps the scribe of this manuscript?) in honour of Rabi Shemu᾿el. At the end (folios 213v-214r) is a similar poem in Hebrew, by the same author.

f. 3r decorated border around the title page, in black and yellow ink.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th to 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 215 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 157 × 105 mm.
Dimensions (written): 125 × 75 mm.
Foliation:

215 folios (+ 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end). Folio 1 is a modern paper flyleaf.

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves eeach.

Condition

Slightly water-damaged.

Stained.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 26

Written lines: 26

Uniform layout. Visible hard-point ruling.

Catchwords on every page.

Some marginal notes.

Chapter numbers and initials given in larger characters.

Hand(s)

Oriental (Persian) square and semi-cursive script of the 17th to 18th century. Yehudah ben Pinḥas: inscribed, folio 213v.

Additions:

Doodles on folio 215r.

Binding

Post-1600. Blind tooled brown leather. Boxed.

Spine title: 'Comm. on Mishneh Thorah. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 19,784.'

History

Origin: 1600-1799 17th-18th century Iran?

Provenance and Acquisition

1854-05-13

D. Nutt (Aschkenazi): purchased by the British Museum from him on 13 May 1854: 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_19784 (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. 502.

Funding of Cataloguing

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