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Or 1046

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Or 1046
Title:
Maimonides' Sefer mitsṿot
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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:
134 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
Shelomoh Supino
Shelomoh ben Avraham
Shelomoh ben Yitsḥaḳ
Solomon ben Joseph ibn ῾Ayyub
Ya῾aḳov ben Mosheh
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Or 1046

Maimonides' Sefer mitsṿot

Contents

Summary of Contents: The revised recension of Maimonides' Sefer mitsṿot in the Hebrew translation of Solomon ben Joseph ibn ῾Ayyub.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-134v
Title: Sefer mitsṿot
Title: ספר מצות

There is no translator's preface in the manuscript.

Folios 68r-69r contain a list of the sixty indispensable mitsṿot in the wording of the Pentateuch, with their numbers in Sefer mitsṿot. The translator arranged these in four tables in his autograph.

Author: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 משה בן מימון, 1138-1204

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Extent: 134 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 220 × 160 mm.
Dimensions (written): 145 × 95 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

14 quires: i-xiii10 (folio 1-129), xiv5 (folios 130-134). The first leaf of the first quire has been cancelled.

Catchwords at the end of the quires, partly cut away.

Condition

First leaves slightly injured.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 25

Written lines: 25

Uniform layout. Visible pricking and ruling with a hard-point object.

Last line written outside the ruling.

Marginal notes, occasionally mutilated in the trimming.

Sections enumerated with Hebrew letters in larger characters.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive script of the 15th century.

Additions:

Folios 134v-135r contain doodles.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'Maimonides. Ham-Mitsvoth. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1046.'

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Shelomoh ben Avraham, Shelomoh Supino, Shelomoh ben Yitsḥaḳ and Ya῾aḳov ben Mosheh: inscribed, folio 134v.

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_1046 (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. 504.

Funding of Cataloguing

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