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Or 4103

Record Id:
032-003376308
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TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
Or 4103
Title:
Mishneh Torah (Books I-II)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
155 folios (ii+155+ii)
Digitised Content:
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_4103 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1300-1399
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 4103

Mishneh Torah (Books I-II)

Contents

Large portions of books I and II of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-155v
Author: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 משה בן מימון, 1138-1204
Title: Mishneh Torah
Title: משנה תורה

Numerous lacunae in the text.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 155 folios (ii+155+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 255 × 200 mm.
Dimensions (written): 185 × 135 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Quires of originally 10 leaves each.

Signatures in Hebrew characters. According to signature on f. 1v, this leaf was the last folio of quire xi, that is, ten quires are missing from the beginning.

Catchwords at the end of the quires.

Condition

Defective at the beginning and at the end.

Large portions of folios missing in other parts.

Stained. Water-damaged.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 22

Written lines: 22

Uniform layout.

Marginal notes, in Arabic and Hebrew.

Chapter titles and numbers given in larger characters, in colours.

Hand(s)

Yemenite semi-cursive script of the 14th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'Maimonides. Mishneh Thorah. Books I & II. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Or. 4103.'

History

Origin: 1300-1399 14th century Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

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_4103 (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. 491.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL