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Or 1081

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032-003376480
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Or 1081
Title:
Sefer mitsṿot gadol (Part 2)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
336 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1081 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1390
End Date:
1390
Date Range:
1390
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Hebrew
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CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
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Names:
Moses ben Jacob, 1300-1399
Moses ben Jacob, 1300-1399
Mosheh
Yosef ben Avraham Boleli
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 1081

Sefer mitsṿot gadol (Part 2)

Contents

The second part of Sefer mitsṿot gadol of Moses ben Jacob of Coucy.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-336v
Title: Sefer mitsṿot gadol
Title: ספר מצוות גדול
Author: Moses ben Jacob, of Coucy, active 13th century משה בן יעקב, מקוצי

Colophon: השלמתי חמש מצוות עשה שהם מדברי סופרים יחד ע[ם] רמ"ח מצוות עשה. שהם מן התורה בג' בשבת ב ו' ועשרים לירח סיון בשנת חמשת אלפים ומאה וחמשים לבריאת עולם. שבח [ל]בורא עולם. אשר מעין כל נעלם. f. 336v

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Extent: 336 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 270 × 181 mm.
Dimensions (written): 173 × 110 mm.
Foliation:

336 folios (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end).

Collation

Currently 21 quires of 16 leaves each, followed by a single leaf at the end.

A complete quire appears to be missing at the beginning.

Condition

Imperfect at the beginning.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 29 41

Written lines: 29 41

Uniform layout. Last line written within ruling.

Hard-point ruling visible (frame only), leaf by leaf on recto.

Hair-side and fleash-side of the folios distinguishable.

Occasional marginal notes.

Chapter initials and titles given in larger characters.

Catchwords on every verso. A simple pen and ink drawing below one of the catchwords, folio 46v.

Occasional infralinear vocalization.

Hand(s)

Byzantine square and semi-cursive script of the 14th century. Mosheh: marked off in an acrostic, folio 336v.

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'Moses of Coucy. Sefer Misvoth Gadhol. A.D. 1390. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1081.'

History

Origin: 1390 Corfu?

Provenance and Acquisition

A note relating to a confiscation and subsequent return of the manuscript to Scuola Pugliesa, a synagogue on Corfu belonging to the Apulian community: dated 1772 (folio 1r).

Yosef ben Avraham Boleli: inscribed (folio 246v).

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_1081 (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. 508.

Funding of Cataloguing

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