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Or 2456

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Or 2456
Title:
Maimonides' Mishneh torah
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
143 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2456 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Persian
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1500-1599
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
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Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Adolph Neubauer
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2456

Maimonides' Mishneh torah

Contents

The first book of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah, preceded by a large fragment of the introduction.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-143v
Title: Mishneh Torah
Title: משנה תורה

There are short notes on the margin and also between the lines, which contain some different readings and explanations in Persian in Hebrew characters

Author: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 משה בן מימון, 1138-1204
ff. 1v-37r
Title: Introduction
ff. 37r-143v
Title: Sefer ha-madaʿ

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 143 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 195 × 120 mm.
Dimensions (written): 145 × 85 mm.
Foliation:

143 folios (+ 2 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end).

Collation

Currently 16 complete quires (nos. 5-20) of 8 leaves each, the last 5 leaves of the 4th quire (folios 1-5), and the first 2 leaves of the 21st quire.

Condition

Imperfect.

Only a part of folio 131 is preserved.

All the leaves laminated (modern conservation).

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 17

Written lines: 17

Uniform layout.

Chapter numbers given in larger characters.

Hand(s)

Oriental (Persian) square and semi-cursive script of the 16th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'Mishneh Torah. Book I. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental Ms. 2456.'

History

Origin: 1500-1599 16th century Iran?

Provenance and Acquisition

Purchased from Adolph Neubauer on 24 June 1882: 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_2456 (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. 488.

Funding of Cataloguing

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