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Or 2218

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Or 2218
Title:
Maimonides' Commentary on Seder Mo῾ed
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
97 folios
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Languages:
Judeo-Arabic
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1652
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1652
Date Range:
1652
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Seleucid
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CE
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Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
Ḥayim ben Shalom ben Daṿid ben Yitsḥaḳ ben Shelomoh ben Ya῾aḳov Al-Ḥagagi
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Or 2218

Maimonides' Commentary on Seder Mo῾ed

Contents

Maimonides' Commentary on Seder Mo῾ed, in Judeo-Arabic.

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-97v
Title: Perush Seder mo῾ed
Title: פרוש סדר מועד
Author: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 משה בן מימון, 1138-1204
Colophon: שלים הדין סדרא דהוא סדר עתיך הנקרא סדר מועד בסייעתא דשמייא יום רביעי דהוא שיתת עסר יומין לירח אייר שנת א'ת'ת'ק'ס'ג' לשטרות במגדלא הקל יחרוב ויצדי והכותב קטן הסופרים ועפר רגלי החכמים הצעיר חיים ב'א'ם' שלום בן דוד בן יצחק בן שלמה בן יעקב הידוע אלחגאגי אלהים יזכיני להרבות ספרים עד אין קץ ולהיות ממצדיקי הרבים. א'כ'י'ר'. f. 96v

f. 7r, 13r, 14v, 25r, 26r, 30v, 31v, 36v, 37r, 37v, 38r diagrams in pen and ink.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 97 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 300 × 200 mm.
Dimensions (written): 235 × 150 mm.
Foliation:

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

There is an original foliation in Hebrew letters.

Collation

13 quires: i6 (folios 1-6); ii-xii8 (folios 7-94); xiii2 (folios 95-97); numbered both with Hebrew letters and Arabic numerals.

Condition

Incomplete at the end.

Stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 32

Written lines: 32

Uniform layout. Discernible hard-point ruling.

Chapter numbers given in large characters.

Catchwords on every verso. Running title on every page.

A few marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Yemenite semi-cursive script of the 17th century. Ḥayim ben Shalom ben Daṿid ben Yitsḥaḳ ben Shelomoh ben Ya῾aḳov Al-Ḥagagi: inscribed, folio 96v, with a date of 1963 (1652).

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'Maimonides' Commentary Seder Moed. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2218.'

History

Origin: 1652 Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 13 Dec. 1879: inscribed, back flyleaf (ii)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_2218 (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. 453.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL