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Or 2357

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Or 2357
Title:
Maimonides' Mishneh Torah (Book III)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
202 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2357 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1383
End Date:
1383
Date Range:
1383
Calendar:
Seleucid
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
Nicolas Mavrocordato
῾Amram ben Ṭuvyah
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Or 2357

Maimonides' Mishneh Torah (Book III)

Contents

The third book (Sefer zemanim) of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-202v
Title: Mishneh Torah
Title: משנה תורה

The short subdivisions of the chapters are mostly numbered.

Author: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 משה בן מימון, 1138-1204
Colophon: נשלם בעזרת שדי יום חמישי בשבא דהוא [...] אייר שנת א'ת'ר'צ'ד' שנין לשטרי יהא סימן [...] עמרם בן טוביה יזכה למהגי ביה הוא וזר[עו] וכו'. f. 202v

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 202 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 250 × 190 mm.
Dimensions (written): 195 × 145 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

17 quires of 12 leaves each, marked with catchwords and numbered with Hebrew letters at the beginning and at the end.

Condition

Folios 1 and 202 much damaged.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 22 23

Written lines: 22 23

Uniform layout. Ruled with a mastara.

Occasional marginal notes with corrections and explanations (e.g. 38v).

Chapter titles and numbers in larger characters, in black and red ink.

Hand(s)

Yemenite semi-cursive script of the 14th century.

Additions:

Some additional notes and inscriptions, folio 1r.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'Maimonides. Mishne Tora. Book III. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2357.'

History

Origin: 1383 Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

῾Amram ben Ṭuvyah: inscribed in the colophon, folio 202v.

Nicolas Mavrocordato: purchased by the British Museum from him on 28 May, 1881: 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_2357 (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. 493.

Funding of Cataloguing

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