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Or 2222

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Or 2222
Title:
Maimonides' Commentary on Pirḳe avot
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
83 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2222 (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:
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Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
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Or 2222

Maimonides' Commentary on Pirḳe avot

Contents

Maimonides' Commentary on Pirḳe avot, in Judeo-Arabic.

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-252v
Title: Perush Pirḳe avot
Title: פרוש פרקי אבות
Author: משה בן מימון, 1138-1204

Lower margin of folio 1r contains a portion of midrash on Esther.

Folio 6r (lower margin) and folio 12r contain poems in Hebrew.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 83 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 190 × 130 mm.
Dimensions (written): 170 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires originally of 10 leaves each, signed with Hebrew letters at the end.

Condition

Incomplete at the beginning and at the end.

A few pages damaged with loss of text

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 17 18

Written lines: 17 18

Uniform layout.

Chapter numbers given in large characters, coloured in red.

A few lenghty marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Two Yemenite semi-cursive scripts of the 15th century.

ff. 1r-51v
and
ff. 52r-83v
due to two different Yemenite hands of the 15th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'Maimonides' Commentary Seder Nezikin. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2222.'

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 (i)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_2222 (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. 458.

Funding of Cataloguing

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