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Or 2421
Title:
Maimonides' Mishneh Torah (Book 10)
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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:
169 folios
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Start Date:
1295
End Date:
1295
Date Range:
1295
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Seleucid
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CE
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Names:
Alfatsal ben Ḥasan ben Se῾id ha-Dayan ben Ḥasan ha-Dayan
Avraham ben Zekharya᾿
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
Nicolas Mavrocordato
Yosef ben Mori Mosheh ῾Alim
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Or 2421

Maimonides' Mishneh Torah (Book 10)

Contents

The 10th book of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah, i.e. Sefer ṭohorah.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-169v
Title: Mishneh Torah
Title: משנה תורה
Author: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 משה בן מימון, 1138-1204

A diagram. f. 16v

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 13th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Extent: 169 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 240 × 180 mm.
Dimensions (written): 190 × 135 mm.
Foliation:

169 folios (+ 2 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

17 quires of 10 leaves each. Last leaf in the last quire cancelled.

Quires numbered with Hebrew letters at the beginning. Numbering partly cut away.

Condition

Stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 22 23

Written lines: 22 23

Uniform layout.

Pricking and hard-point ruling visible.

Hair-side and flesh-side of the folios distinguishable.

Chapter numbers given in larger characters.

Hand(s)

Yemenite semi-cursive script of the 13th century.

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'Maimonides. Mishneh Thora. Book X. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2421.'

History

Origin: 1295 Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Alfatsal ben Ḥasan ben Se῾id ha-Dayan ben Ḥasan ha-Dayan: inscribed, 1606 (1295) (folio 169v).

Yosef ben Mori Mosheh ῾Alim and Avraham ben Zekharya᾿: inscribed (folio 1r).

Nicolas Mavrocordato: purchased by the British Museum from him on 08 October 1881: 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=Or_2421 (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. 496.

Funding of Cataloguing

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