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Or 2224

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032-003376819
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Or 2224
Title:
Miscellany
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
255 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2224 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1490
End Date:
1490
Date Range:
1490
Calendar:
Seleucid
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 2224

Miscellany

Contents

Summary of Contents: Portions of Maimonides' commentaries on the parts of the Mishnah, in Judeo-Arabic, a fragment of Sifra, a fragment of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah and Sefer mitsṿot, and a leaf describing works forbidden on the Sabbath day.

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-205v
Title: Perush Seder ḳodashim
Title: פרוש סדר קדשים
Author: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 משה בן מימון, 1138-1204
Colophon: [...] בירח אדר שנת א'ת'ת'א' יהא סימן טוב על מריה ג'יאת ן' סלח אלכאולי יזכה למהגי ביה הוא וזרעיה ו'צ'א' [...] ונכתב במדינה אלטוילה תתבני עד [...] f. 205v
ff. 206r-246r
Title: Perush Seder ṭoharot
Title: פרוש סדר טהרות
Author: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 משה בן מימון, 1138-1204

Fragments only.

ff. 246r-252r
Title: Sifra
Title: ספרא

A fragment only. Differs from the standard printed recension.

ff. 252r-252v
Title: Mishneh Torah
Title: משנה תורה
Author: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 משה בן מימון, 1138-1204

A fragment only (on Shofeṭim).

ff. 253r-254v
Title: Sefer mitsṿot
Title: ספר מצוות

Two leaves only.

ff. 255r-255v
Title: Exposition of forbidden works

A leaf containing a fragment of an Arabic exposition of works forbidden on the day of Sabbath. Finishes with the number 39.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 255 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 280/255 × 200/165 mm.
Dimensions (written): 210/195 × 145/120 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

23 quires: i-xxiii10 (folios 1-205), some of which are defective, signed with Hebrew letters at the end.

Folios 206-245, 246-251, 252, 253-254 and 255 are separate fragments of different other manuscripts.

Condition

Leaves missing after folios 3, 30, 66, 92, 130, 148.

Largely defective. Several leaves mutilated.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 21 22

Written lines: 21 22

Visible mastara ruling.

Chapter numbers given in large characters.

A few marginal notes.

Diagrams.

Hand(s)

Yemenite semi-cursive script of the 15th century.

ff. 206r-245v
,
ff. 246r-251v
,
ff. 252r-252v
,
ff. 253r-254v
,
ff. 255r-255v
written in other hands of the same date.

Decoration

Diagrams.

f. 182v, 183v, 185v, 187v, 188v, 189r, 192r, 192v, 196r diagrams, in pen and ink.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'Maimonides' Commentary Seder Kodashim. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2224.'

History

Origin: 1490 Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 10 April 1880: inscribed, back flyleaf (i)v.

1880-04-10

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_2224 (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. 461.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL