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Or 2221

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Or 2221
Title:
Maimonides' Commentary on Seder Mo῾ed
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
82 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2221 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2221

Maimonides' Commentary on Seder Mo῾ed

Contents

A large portion of Maimonides' Commentary on Seder Mo῾ed in Judeo-Arabic.

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-82v
Title: Perush Seder mo῾ed
Title: פרוש סדר מועד
Author: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 משה בן מימון, 1138-1204

Diagrams, in pen and ink. f. 8r, 8v, 9v, 17v, 18v, 19v, 20r

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 82 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 280 × 190 mm.
Dimensions (written): 207 × 140 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Currently the volume begins with the 5th leaf of the 5th quire and ends with the 6th leaf of the 14th quire.

One leaf is missing after folio 36, five leaves after folio 51 and four after folio 67.

Condition

Incomplete.

Folios 66-68 are more or less mutilated.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 25

Written lines: 25

Uniform layout. Visible mastara ruling.

Chapter numbers given in large characters, coloured in red.

Catchwords on every verso.

A few marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Yemenite semi-cursive script of the 15th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'Maimonides' Commentary Seder Moed. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2221.'

Accompanying Material

Front flyleaf (iii) is a printed vellum leaf from Ṿa-yikhal, and back flyleaf (i) is another from Peḳude, belonging to Ḥumash ve-targum Onḳelos ῾im perush Rash"i ve-Ramban, Salonica 1520.

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

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

1879-12-13

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_2221 (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. 451.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL