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Add MS 22069
Title:
Sefer Mitsṿot gadol (Gan ῾eden) by Aaron ben Elijah
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
265 folios
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Languages:
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Start Date:
1580
End Date:
1580
Date Range:
1580
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Names:
Aaron ben Elijah, 1328-1369
Aaron ben Elijah, 1328-1369
Avraham Yerushalmi
Eliyah Tishbi
Eliyah Yerushalmi
Hillel ben Mosheh Hillel
J. O. Weigel
Mosheh Rabitsi ben Ye᾿uda Nur
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Add MS 22069

Sefer Mitsṿot gadol (Gan ῾eden) by Aaron ben Elijah

Contents

Sefer Mitsṿot gadol, also called Gan ῾eden, of Aaron ben Elijah, the Karaite.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-35v
Title: Sefer Mitsṿot gadol
Title: בפר מצות גדול

The order of the parts differs occasionally from that observed in the printed edition.

Author: Aaron ben Elijah אהרן בן אליהו, מניקומדיה
Filiation: Cf [BL] Or 1263 (Margoliouth, no. 600), part IV.
Colophon: נשלם זה הספר ביום שני ארבעה עשר יום לחדש תמוז משנת חמשת אלפים ושלש מאות וארבעים לבריאת עולם למספר בני ישראל פה בבית השר וגדול בישראל הדוכוס האדון דון יוסף הנשיא זלה"ה. f. 265r

References

[Aaron_ben_Elijah_1866]

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 265 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 290 × 205 mm.
Dimensions (written): 190 × 120 mm.
Foliation:

265 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 2 at the end). Folio 1 is a paper flyleaf.

Collation

Quires of mostly 12 leaves each.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 34

Written lines: 34

Uniform layout.

Visible hard-point ruling.

Chapter numbers given in larger characters. Titles given in larger square characters.

Catchwords on every verso.

Occasional marginal notes.

A diagram, folio 10r.

Hand(s)

Sefardi (North-African) semi-cursive script of the 16th century.

Additions:

A French description of the manuscript, pasted on folio 1v.

Binding

Pre-1600, contemporary binding. Brown leather, gold tooled. Boxed.

Spine title: 'Aharon ben Eliah. Mus. Brit. Jure Emptionis. 22,069. Plut. CCXIV E.'

History

Origin: 1580 Egypt (Cairo)

Provenance and Acquisition

Eliyah Yerushalmi: inscribed, folio 2v.

Folio 69v: a record of sale of the manuscript, between Mosheh Rabitsi ben Ye᾿uda Nur and Avraham Yerushalmi.

Folio 265r: a record of sale of the manuscript between Eliyah Tishbi and Hillel ben Mosheh Hillel.

1857-06-27

J. O. Weigel: purchased from him by the British Museum on 27 June 1857: inscribed (folio [266v]).

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_22069 (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. 601.

Bibliography

    [BL] BL = British Library shelfmark
    [Aaron_ben_Elijah_1866] אהרן בהר׳׳ר אליהו, and 1328?-1369 Aaron ben Elijah. 'Sefer Mitsṿot Gadol : Ha-Niḳraʾ Gan ʿEden ... : Be-Veʾur Kaṿonot Ha-Mitsṿot Sheba-Torah Ṿe-Dine ʿinyanim Ha-Nikhlalim Be-Tokho / Yatsa Le-or Paʿam Rishonah ʿal Yede Yehudah b.k.m. Y. Saṿsḳan.'גוזלװא: יסאװסקאן, תרכו, בדפוס אשפירקוויץ, Gozlṿa Yevapatoria, 1866.

Funding of Cataloguing

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