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Or 2395

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Or 2395
Title:
Recension of Maimonides' Sefer mitsṿot
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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:
168 folios
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Languages:
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1400-1599
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 2395

Recension of Maimonides' Sefer mitsṿot

Contents

The revised recension of Maimonides' Sefer mitsṿot in the original Arabic, in Hebrew characters.

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-168v
Title: Sefer mitsṿot
Title: ספר מצות

Folios 1-10r contain a fragmentary enumeration of the 613 precepts in the actual wording of the Pentateuch (cf [BL] Or. 1046 (Margoliouth, no. 504), thus differing from the enumeration in Moses ibn Tibbon's Hebrew translation, where a free wording is adopted.

Introduction begins on folio 10r, Mitsvot ʿaseh on folio 36r, and Mitsṿot lo taʿaseh on folio 89r.

Folio 164r is a duplicate of folio 162r due to a mistake of the scribe.

References from most mitsṿot to Maimonides' Mishneh Torah have been added on the margin.

Author: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 משה בן מימון, 1138-1204

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th to 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 168 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 220 × 160 mm.
Dimensions (written): 145 × 95 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Originally quires of 10 leaves each.

Catchwords at the end of the quires.

Condition

Missing the first five leaves in the first quire.

Folios 167 and 168 are of recent date.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 25

Written lines: 25

Uniform layout. Visible mastara ruling.

Last line written outside the ruling.

Some marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Yemenite semi-cursive script of the 15th to 16th century.

Additions:

Folios 167r-168v are recent additions.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'Maimonides. Sefer Ham-Mitsvoth. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2395.'

History

Origin: 1400-1599 15th-16th century Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library 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.

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2395 (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. 503.

Bibliography

    [BL] BL = British Library shelfmark

Funding of Cataloguing

BL