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Or 10581

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Or 10581
Title:
Sharḥ Mishneh Torah by Daṿid ben Yeshaʿ
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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:
88 folios (iii+88+iii)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1400-1599
Era:
CE
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Names:
Daṿid ben Yeshaʿ, Torah commentator, fl 15th century-16th century
Daṿid ben Yeshaʿ, Torah commentator, fl 15th century-16th century
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Or 10581

Sharḥ Mishneh Torah by Daṿid ben Yeshaʿ

Contents

A commentary on the Mishneh Torah in Judeo-Arabic.

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew

ff. 1r-88v
Author: דוד בן ישע Daṿid ben Yeshaʿ, active 15th century-16th century
Title: שרח משנה תורה של הרמב"ם
Title: Sharḥ Mishneh Torah shel ha-Rambam

In the form of a responsum.

Includes parts of the books Mada, Ahavah, Zemanim, Nashim and Keddushah.

With numerous marginal notes in Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic; and many diagrams (e.g. ff. 49-63).

Incomplete at the end (and possibly at the beginning), and there are several lacunae within the collation.

Colophon:
ff. 1r-24r
Title: Sefer Madaʿ

F. 1r: Hilkhot Yesode Torah; f. 11v: Hilkhot deʿot; f. 15v: Hilkhot Talmud Torah

ff. 24r-44v
Title: Sefer Ahavah
ff. 45r-72r
Title: Sefer Zemanim
ff. 72r-79v
Title: Sefer Nashim
ff. 80r-88v
Title: Sefer Kedushah

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th-16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Yellowish Oriental paper.
Extent: 88 folios (iii+88+iii)
Dimensions (leaf): 187 × 133 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Indeterminable.

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

Collation is detached from binding, and falling apart.

Very fragile leaves.

Usage stains, water damage.

Layout

Columns:1

Uniform layout.

Section heading are in larger characters.

Number of written lines per page varies slightly.

Hand(s)

Yemenite Hebrew square script of the 15th-16th century. A few lines in Arabic script (ff. 70r, 72r).

Binding

Post-1600. Boxed.

M. Gaster's label on spine: '1408 פ' ערבי על יד החזקה'.

History

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

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1408; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 8 February 1932.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and the Catalogue of Hebrew Manuscripts in the Gaster Collection, the British Library, London; preface by Brad Sabin Hill; reproduced from the MS and typescript blue-slips prepared by Jacob Leeven, Joseph Rosenwasser and David Goldstein (London: Hebrew Section. Oriental and India Office Collection, 1996) (unpublished copy is available in the AAS reading room).

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