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Or 2226

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Or 2226
Title:
Maimonides' Commentary on the Mishnah
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
138 folios
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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 ben Maimon, 1135-1204
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
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Or 2226

Maimonides' Commentary on the Mishnah

Contents

Summary of Contents: A large portion of Maimonides' Commentary on Seder Zera῾im in Judeo-Arabic, preceded by a fragment belonging to an anonymous Arabic commentary in the form of questions and answers on the Mishneh Torah of the same author.

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-138v
Title: Perush Seder zera῾im
Title: פרוש סדר זרעים
Author: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 משה בן מימון, 1138-1204

The fragments of the Arabic commentary on Maimonides' Mishneh Torah extends from the end of chapter two in Ḳeriʾat shema῾ to the beginning of chapter thirteen in Hilkhot tefilah, followed by a smaller fragment of the same commentary on Hilkhot shevitat yom ṭov, extending from the latter part of chapter one to the beginning of chapter five.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 138 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 260 × 190 mm.
Dimensions (written): 210 × 145 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Folios 19-138 (with Hebrew signatures from 8 to 18) form 12 quires of 10 leaves each, with the exception of the quire marked as 12 (folios 69-79), which originally had 12 leaves, one of which has been cancelled.

One leaf is missing after folio 10, and the last leaf of the quire marked as 18 is also wanting.

Condition

Stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 27 28

Written lines: 27 28

Uniform layout. Visible mastara ruling.

Chapter numbers given in large square characters.

Marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square and semi-cursive script of the 15th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'Maimonides' Commentary Seder Zeraim. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2226.'

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

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_2226 (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. 448.

Funding of Cataloguing

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