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Harley MS 5525

Record Id:

040-003948067

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-003948067

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100124336768.0x000001

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100145087003.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5525

Title:

Collection of philosophical writings.

Mafteaḥ ha-῾inyanim by Harizi, Judah ben Solomon, active 12th -13th century

מפתח הענינים

and 3 other texts

Scope & Content:

Language: Hebrew

Philosophical writings.

Fols 3r-17v

Author: Harizi, Judah ben Solomon, active 12th -13th century (חריזי, יהודה בן שלמה)

Mafteaḥ ha-῾inyanim

מפתח הענינים

Note: There is a Latin title, 'Directorum Dubitantium authore Rabbi Moysis ab Egiptus', on fol. 3r.

Explicit: נשלמה הפתיחה אשר חברה לבאר מה ענין הספר הזה יהודה בן שלמה חריזי רי"ת. (Fol 17r)

Fols 18v-370v

Author: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 (משה בן מימון)

Moreh nevukhim

מורה נבוכים

Note: In the Hebrew translation of (translator) Shemuel ibn Tibbon. There is a number of additions, corrections, and explanatory notes in the margin, in cursive Italian script.

Decoration note: 1 inhabited arcade framing text, in gold and colours. (Fol 136r)

Decoration note: Numerous panels decorated with foliate motifs and inhabited by birds, animals and hybrids around the initial words, in colours.

Decoration note: Numerous pen-flourishing sometimes inhabited by hybrids accompanying headings, in red and blue ink.

Fols 371v-409r

Author: Ibn Tibbon, Shmuel, active 12th century-13th century (אבן תבון, שמואל בן יהודה)

Perush ha-milot ha-zarot

פרוש המלות הזרות

Fols 410r-424v

Mafteaḥ li-fesuḳe ha-Tana"kh

מפתח לפסוקי התנ"ך

Explicit : folio 17r: נשלמה הפתיחה אשר חברה לבאר מה ענין הספר הזה יהודה בן שלמה חריזי רי"ת

There is a Latin title, 'Directorum Dubitantium authore Rabbi Moysis ab Egiptus', on folio 3r

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-003948067

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5525 : Collection of philosophical writings.Mafteaḥ ha-῾inyanim by Harizi, Judah ben Solomon, active 12th -13th…

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[7876]/040-003948067

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

424 folios

Digitised Content:

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Languages:

Hebrew

Scripts:

Hebrew

Start Date:

1400

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

1400-1499

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Parchment codex of the 15th century.

424 folios. Dimensions (leaf): 205 x 140 mm. Dimensions (written): 120 x 75 mm.

Format: codex. Material: parchment.

Foliation: 424 folios (+ 2 modern unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 modern unfoliated paper flyleaves and 1 older parchment flyleaf at the end). Folios 1 and 2 are paper flyleaves.

Collation: Quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

Layout: Columns: 2. Ruled lines: 24. Written lines: 24. Uniform layout. Visible hard-point ruling. Hair side and flesh side distinguishable. Titles and inital words in larger characters. Catchwords from page to page, ornamented with pen and ink designs. Numerous maniculae. Marginal notes and additions.

Additions: An English description of the manuscript, pasted on fol. 1v. A medical recipe, fol. 424v.

Hand note: Hebrew.

Number of hands: 2.

Script: Sefardi square script, unpunctuated, of the 15th century. Fols 410r-424v: : written in an Italian semi-cursive script of the 16th century.

Binding: Post-1600. Red leather, gold tooled. Boxed. Spine: 'Maimonides. More Nebuchim, Etc. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Harley Or. 5525.'

Dimensions [leaf]: 205x140mm

Dimensions [written]: 120x75mm

Parchment codex of the 15th century

Script (summary): Sefardi square script, unpunctuated, of the 15th century

Script: folios 410r - 424v : written in an Italian semi-cursive script of the 16th century

Collation: Quires of mostly 10 leaves each

Foliation: 424 folios (+ 2 modern unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 modern unfoliated paper flyleaves and 1 older parchment flyleaf at the end). Folios 1 and 2 are paper flyleaves

Binding: Post-1600. Red leather, gold tooled. Boxed. Spine: 'Maimonides. More Nebuchim, Etc. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Harley Or. 5525.'

Additions: An English description of the manuscript, pasted on folio 1v. Shimshon Kohen Modon: inscribed, folio 3r. A medical recipe, folio 424v. Censored by Dominico Irosolomitano, Italian censor (active 1575-1624): inscribed with his name (folio 424v); see William Popper, The Censorship of Hebrew Books (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 61, and appendix § 62-74

Format: Codex

Material: Parchment

Custodial History:

Provenance: Shimshon Kohen Modon: inscribed, fol. 3r. Censored by (censor) Dominico Irosolomitano, Italian censor (active 1575-1624): inscribed with his name (fol. 424v); see William POPPER. The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger. New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969. page 61, and appendix § 62-74.

Place of origin: Italy (or France, S.?)

Source of Acquisition:

Acquisition: The Harley Collection, formed by (owner) Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and (owner) Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts; inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley, '18 die January, A.D. 1723/4' (folio 2r). Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, (owner) Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, (owner) Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, d.1785), Duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Date: 1753.

Date of origin: 15th century.

1753 The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (owner) (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (owner) (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts; inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley, '18 die January, A.D. 1723/4' (folio 2r). Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (owner) (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (owner) (b. 1715, d.1785), Duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library

Administrative Context:

Date of origin: 15th century.

Origin: 1400-1499

Italy (or France, S. ?)

Finding Aids:

Record history: Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

Publications:

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. 911.

William Popper. 'The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger.'New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969.

Source: Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

Credit: The Polonsky Foundation Catalogue of Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Notes:

Credit: The Polonsky Foundation Catalogue of Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts.