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Or 2393

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032-003376855
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Or 2393
Title:
Maimonides' Commentary on the Mishnah of Seder neziḳin
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
329 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2393 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1300-1499
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 2393

Maimonides' Commentary on the Mishnah of Seder neziḳin

Contents

Summary of Contents: Maimonides' Commentary on the Mishnah of Seder neziḳin, in Judeo-Arabic, preceded by a fragment of the same commentary on Seder nashim.

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-329v
Title: Perush Seder neziḳin
Title: פרוש סדר נזקין
Author: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 משה בן מימון, 1138-1204

Folios 1-11 are written in a bold large script of probably the 14th century, containing a fragment of Maimonides' Commentary on Soṭah, covering parts of its chapter 4 and 5.

f. 92v a coloured diagram.

Ornamental decorations. f. 6r, 10r, 40r, 70v, 75v, 105r, 115v

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 14th to 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 329 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 260 × 185 mm.
Dimensions (written): 175 × 145 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

21 quires: i4 (folios 13-16); ii10-1 (folio 17-25); iii-xxxi10 (folios 26-315); xxxii10-1 (folios 316-324); xxxiii5 (folios 325-329). Folios 1-11 are a separate fragment, and folio 12 is a recent addition.

Quires signed with Hebrew letters at the end.

Condition

Incomplete at the beginning.

Damaged by dampness.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 21 22

Written lines: 21 22

Uniform layout.

Chapter numbers given in large characters.

A large coloured writing, accompanied with ornamentations, at the end of the text. The headings of masekhtot and chapters, as well as the short colophons and the enumeration of the quires are given in colours. Slight decorations are added (e.g. 6r, 10r, 40r, 70v, 75v, 105r, 115v).

Hand(s)

Yemenite semi-cursive script of the 14th to 15th century.

ff. 1r-11v
due to a different but contemporary hand.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'Maimonides' Commentary Seder Nezikin. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2393.'

History

Origin: 1300-1499 14th-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 23 July 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_2393 (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. 456.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL