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Or 10741

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Or 10741
Title:
Perush Sefer ha-mitsṿot (fragments)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
17 folios (ii+17+ii)
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Languages:
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Judeo-Arabic
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1400-1599
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Or 10741

Perush Sefer ha-mitsṿot (fragments)

Contents

Fragments of a commentary on Maimonides' Sefer ha-Mitsṿot.

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew

ff. 1r-17v
Title: פרוש ספר המצוות לרמב"ם בערבית : בצורת שאלות ותשובות
Title: Perush Sefer ha-mitsṿot la-Rambam be-ʿAravit: be-tsurat sheʾelot u-teshuvot

Lacuna after f. 7.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th-16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Yellowish Oriental paper.
Extent: 17 folios (ii+17+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 265 × 192 mm.
Dimensions (written): 195 × 140 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Catchwords on most versos.

Signatures in Hebrew characters on f. 7v, 8r, and f. 17v.

According to the signatures, an entire quire is missing between f. 7 and f. 8.

Condition

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 26

Written lines: 26

Uniform layout.

Justified left margins.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square script of the 15th-16th century.

Decoration

Coloured intial words (e.g. ff. 1r, 2v, 3r, 7v).

Binding

Post-1600, black cloth binding.

Accompanying Material

History

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

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1383; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 4 February 1932.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel.

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