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Or 1486
Title:
Maimonides' Mishneh Torah (Books I-II)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
118 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1486 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1300-1499
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
Yosef Al-Falaḳi
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 1486

Maimonides' Mishneh Torah (Books I-II)

Contents

The first two books of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-118v
Title: Mishneh Torah
Title: משנה תורה

No introduction.

The small subdivisions of the chapters are mostly numbered in letters.

Author: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 משה בן מימון, 1138-1204
ff. 1v-62r
Title: Sefer ha-madaʿ
ff. 62r-118v
Title: Sefer ahavah

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th to 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Extent: 118 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 245 × 170 mm.
Dimensions (written): 180 × 115 mm.
Foliation:

118 folios (+ 2 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

11 quires of 10 leaves each and 1 (the last one) quire of 8 leaves.

Quires numbered with Hebrew letters at the end.

Condition

Imperfect.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 31

Written lines: 30

Uniform layout. Visible hard-point ruling.

Hair-side and flesh-side of the folios visible.

Last line written inside the ruling.

Scant marginal notes.

Section titles written in red ink and chapter numbers given in larger characters.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi semi-cursive script of the 14th to 15th century.

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'Yad Chazakah.Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1486.'

History

Origin: 1300-1499 14th-15th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Yosef Al-Falaḳi: inscribed (folio 1r).

'Marchion' written on the margins in a few places where censor's erasures were to be made (e.g. ff. 41v, 44v, 45r, 53r).

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_1486 (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. 490.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL