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Or 4842

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Or 4842
Title:
Maimonides' Mishnah commentary (Seder Nashim)
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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:
186 folios
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Languages:
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1401
End Date:
1401
Date Range:
1401
Calendar:
Seleucid
Era:
CE
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Names:
Asher (?) ben ῾Ovadyah
Maḥpots ibn Ma῾ots
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
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Or 4842

Maimonides' Mishnah commentary (Seder Nashim)

Contents

Maimonides' Commentary on the Mishnah of Seder Nashim, in Judeo-Arabic.

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-186v
Title: Perush Seder nashim
Title: פרוש סדר נשים
Author: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 משה בן מימון, 1138-1204
Colophon: נשלם ספר זה במעלי שבא שהוא חד ועשרין יומן לירח מרחשון של שנת אתשיג לשטרות [...] בצנעת בני קיס תתבני עד שתתבני ירושלם: נכתב על שם החבר הטוב אשר [?] בן עובדיה אלהים יזכיהו למהגי ביה ולדקדק בעני[ניו הוא] וזרעיה וכו': f. 186v

The order of the masekhtot is the same as in Or 2392, 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. 455..

On folio 1r there is a fragment of the same author's introduction to his Mishnah's Commentary, in the Hebrew translation of Yehudah Ḥarizi.

On the lower part of the same page is a portion of halakhic notes in Judeo-Arabic.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 186 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 255 × 175 mm.
Dimensions (written): 197 × 125 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of 10 leaves leaves each, with the exception of the first and the last, of 9 and 7 folios respectively.

Signatures in Hebrew letters at the end of each quire.

Condition

Marks of damp damage.

Margins slightly injured.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 24

Written lines: 24

Uniform layout. Visible mastara ruling.

Chapter numbers given in large characters.

Catchwords on every verso, partly cut away.

A few marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Yemenite semi-cursive script of the 15th century. Maḥpots ibn Ma῾ots[?]: inscribed, folio 186v, with a date of 1713 [1401].

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'Maimonides' Commentary Seder Nashim. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 4842.'

History

Origin: 1401 Yemen (Sanaʿa)

Provenance and Acquisition

Asher (?) ben ῾Ovadyah: inscribed, folio 186v.

Morris, Heller & Weiss: purchased by the British Museum on 14 November 1894: inscribed, back flyleaf (ii)v.

1894-11-14

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_4842 (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. 454.

Funding of Cataloguing

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