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Or 2855

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Or 2855
Title:
Sefer ha-ḥinukh
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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:
290 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1350
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1350-1399
Era:
CE
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Names:
Aaron ha-Levi of Barcelona, Spanish Talmudist, fl 13th-14th century
Aaron ha-Levi of Barcelona, Spanish Talmudist, fl 13th-14th century
Mordekhai
Mosheh ben Benyamin of Bologne
N. Rabinowitz
Rafa᾿el ben Mosheh ha-Melamed
Shemu᾿el ha-Rofe
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Or 2855

Sefer ha-ḥinukh

Contents

A commentary on the 613 precepts arranged in the order of the weekly parashiyot.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-289v
Title: Sefer ha-ḥinukh
Title: ספר החינוך

The attribution to Aaron of Barcelona is not certain.

The various quotations from Maimonides' Sefer mitsṿot are taken from Avraham ben Ḥasdai's Hebrew translation of that work.

The manuscript differs slightly from the printed editions.

Author: Aaron, ha-Levi, of Barcelona, active 13th century-14th century אהרן, הלוי, מברצלונה
Colophon: בפניי אליהו הנבי"א בכמה"ר יהודה וצבי הרופא נבתוי"א הכ"מ קבל מ"ר שמואל הרופא מאגוביאו בכ"ר יואב ז"ל זה החנוך מכמ"ר מרדכי מעירנו ושלחהו לו ע"י אנטוניאו חמר[?] ב' באלול שקל"ג והם י"ד קונטריסים כתובי' וי"ד קונטריסי' חלק' והיה זה שלו' שהם בין הכל שמנה ועשרים". f. 2r

References

[Sefer_hahinukh_1721]

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Extent: 290 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 275 × 190 mm.
Dimensions (written): 190 × 125 mm.
Foliation:

290 folios (+ 2 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end). Folios 1 and 290 are vellum flyleaves.

Collation

30 quires of mostly 10 leaves each, marked with catchwords and Hebrew letters at the end.

Quires no. 12, 21, 22, 25 have 8 leaves each, quire no. 30 has 6 leaves only.

Condition

Folio 290 is only partly preserved.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 34

Written lines: 34

Uniform layout. Visible pricking and hard-point ruling (bifolium by bifolium).

Hair-side and flesh-side of the folios distinguishable, with visible scratching.

Last line written outside the ruling.

Occasional infralinear vocalization.

Chapter numbers in the margins, within pen and ink simple design.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive script of the 14th century. Avraham (?), the scribe: his name marked off within the text.

ff. 3r-96v
,
ff. 100v-109r
and
ff. 208r-229r
due to the 1st hand (i.e. Avraham);
ff. 109v-207v
and
ff. 230r-289v
due to the 2nd hand;
ff. 97r-100v
,
ff. 229v-230r
due to the 3rd hand.

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'Sefer Ha Chinnuk. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2855.'

History

Origin: 1350-1399 2nd half of the 14th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Shemu᾿el ha-Rofe: inscribed in the colophon, folio 2r.

Mordekhai, Rafa᾿el ben Mosheh ha-Melamed and Mosheh ben Benyamin of Bologne: inscribed in the contract of sale, folio 1r.

1885-04-18

N. Rabinowitz: bought from him by the British Museum on 18 April 1885 (folio [290v]).

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_2855 (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. 517.

Bibliography

    [Sefer_hahinukh_1721] אהרן, הלוי, and ha-Levi Aaron. 'Sefer Ha-Ḥinukh : Yavoʾu Bo h.t.r.y.g. Mitsṿot ... Mesudarot ʿal Pi Seder Ha-Parashiyot ...'אמשטרדם, ועתה, Amśṭerdam, 1721, 1721.

Funding of Cataloguing

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