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Or 11118

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Or 11118
Title:
Maimonides' Mishneh Torah (fragment)
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
52 folios (ii+52+iii)
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Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1400-1599
Era:
CE
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Names:
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
Sa'adia ben Joseph, Gaon, 882-942,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/95159227
Sa'adia ben Joseph, Gaon, 882-942,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/95159227
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Or 11118

Maimonides' Mishneh Torah (fragment)

Contents

A fragment of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah containing Books XIII-XIV.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-52v
Author: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 משה בן מימון
Title: משנה תורה (ספר משפטים-שופטים)
Title: Mishneh Torah (Sefer Mishpaṭim-Shofṭim)
Incipit: כאלו נהג כל היום כולו ומותר לנעול ולרחוץ ולסוך ולגלח בשאר...
Explicit: מכה רבה בודאי הוא...

Includes fragments from Hilkhot Evel, Melakhim u-milḥamotekhem, Sanhedrin, Edut, Ṭoen ṿe-niṭan and Malṿeh ve-loṿeh.

Begins with Hilkhot Evel 7:3; ends on f. 52v with Hilkhot Sanhedrin 17:1.

Incomplete at the beginning and end; the leaves are bound out of order.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 15th-16th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 52 folios (ii+52+iii)
Dimensions (leaf): 240 × 178 mm.
Dimensions (written): 175 × 125 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

No catchwords.

Condition

Worn, damaged leaves, some fixed with silk gauze.

Usage stains, liquid damage, dirt.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 22

Written lines: 22

Section headings are in larger characters.

Pricking and ruling are visible.

Hand(s)

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

Decoration

Additions:

Ff. 24r-24v: a fragment of Proverbs 30 with Saʿadia ben Joseph's Arabic translation after each verse; written by a different hand; vocalised.

Binding

BM in-house.

Title on spine: 'Moses b. Maimūn. Mishneh Torah. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 11,118.'.

Accompanying Material

History

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

Provenance and Acquisition

Acquisition note on back flyleaf (ii)v: 'Bought of E. A. Morris. 13 July 1929'; date of accession 22 July 1929.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and volume IV of Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_11118 (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), vol. IV. p. 161.

Funding of Cataloguing

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