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Or 45
Title:
Novellae on Maimonides' Mishneh Torah by Meir Kohen
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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:
126 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1500-1599
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CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Joseph Schönblum
Kohen, Meʼir
כהן, מאיר
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 45

Novellae on Maimonides' Mishneh Torah by Meir Kohen

Contents

Novellae on Maimonides' Mishneh Torah by Meir Kohen, a disciple of Meir of Rothenburg.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-126v
Title: Ḥidushim ῾al [Mishneh Torah]
Title: חידושים על [משנה תורה]
Author: Kohen, Meʼir כהן, מאיר

There is an enumeration of the halakhot and mitsvot contained in the Mishneh Torah on f. 98v.

Folios 1r-3r contain some additional notes on Mishneh Torah, in a cursive Italian hand of the 16th century.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 126 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 205 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): 140 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

126 folios (+ 1 unfoliated modern paper flyleaf at the beginning and 2 at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each, marked by catchwords and by signatures in Hebrew letters.

Condition

Lacunae after folios 19, 55.

Folio 15 left blank by the scribe.

Ink often rubbed off. Fading.

Partly water-damaged.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 23

Written lines: 23

Uniform layout.

Visible pricking and hard-point ruling.

Scant marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive script of the 16th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'Meir Kohen. Chiddushim 'al Yad Ha-Chazakah. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 45.'

History

Origin: 1500-1599 16th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Joseph Schönblum: purchased by the British Museum from him on 25 May 1867: 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_45 (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. 501.

Funding of Cataloguing

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