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Title:
Maimonides' Perush Ḳodashim
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
210 folios
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Languages:
Judeo-Arabic
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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 ben Maimon, 1135-1204
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
Nicolas Mavrocordato
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Or 2420

Maimonides' Perush Ḳodashim

Contents

A portion of Maimonides' Commentary on the Mishnah of Seder Ḳodashim, in Judeo-Arabic.

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-210v
Title: Perush Ḳodashim
Title: פרוש קדשים
Author: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 משה בן מימון, 1138-1204

Masekhet Menaḥot begins on folio 93r, and masekhet Ḥulin on folio 175v. It ends in the middle of the fifth chapter, the last leaf being mutilated.

Diagrams, including a diagram of the Temple (162r) f. 37r, 38r, 162r .

f. 93r, 175v Pen and ink designs at the beginning of chapters.

f. 117r a drawing of a seven-branch menorah.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 14th to 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 210 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 245 × 185 mm.
Dimensions (written): 185 × 130 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of 10 leaves each, signed with Hebrew letters both on the first and the last pages.

Condition

Defective at the beginning and at the end.

A leaf is missing after folio 192.

A few leaves are damaged with loss of text.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 22

Written lines: 22

Uniform layout. Visible mastara ruling.

Chapter numbers given in large characters, decorated with pen and ink designs.

A few marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Yemenite semi-cursive script of the 14th to 15th century. The writing is occasionally blotted.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'Maimonides' Commentary Seder Qodashim. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2420.'

History

Origin: 1300-1499 14th-15th century Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Nicolas Mavrocordato: purchased by the British Library from him on 08 October 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_2420 (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. 460.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL