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Harley MS 5698

Record Id:

040-003948072

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-003948072

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100124336773.0x000001

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100145088456.0x000001

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5698

Title:

Lisbon Mishneh Torah', volume 1.

Mishneh Torah by Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204

משנה תורה

and 7 other texts

Scope & Content:

Language: Hebrew

Mishneh Torah, volume 1.

Fols 1r-301v

Author: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 (משה בן מימון, 1138-1204)

Mishneh Torah.

משנה תורה

Decoration note: 1 title page surrounded by penwork decoration and a floriated full border in colours and gold. (Fol 2r)

Decoration note: 8 embellished frontispieces at the beginning of the books with initial-word panels with gold letters and penwork decoration and surrounded by full-borders with foliate motifs, inhabited by birds and animals. (Fols 11v, 12r, 13v, 31v, 63v, 106v, 197v, 252v)

Decoration note: A drawing of a fish in the margin. (Fol 156r)

Filiation: See also the second volume of the work, The British Library, n.d. Harley MS 5699, 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. 487.

Fols 2r-10v

613 precepts.

Fols 12r-31v

Introduction.

Fols 31v-63v

Sefer ha-mada῾.

Fols 63v-106v

Sefer ahavah.

Fols 106v-197v

Sefer zemanim.

Fols 197v-252v

Sefer nashim.

Fols 252v-301v

Sefer ḳedushah.

Halakhah

On this manuscript see also Bezalel Narkiss. Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts. Foreword by Cecil Roth. Jerusalem, Encyclopaedia Judaica; New York Macmillan 1969, 1969, page 78, Gabrielle Sed-Rajna. Manuscrits Hébreux de Lisbonne. Un Atelier de Copistes et D'enlumineurs Au XVe Siècle. Paris: Éditions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1970, page 20-23, C. E. Wright, (Cyril Ernest). Fontes Harleiani : A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts Preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum / Cyril Ernest Wright. London: British Museum, 1972, page 246, 459, Narkiss B. Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts in the British Isles 2 VOLS. (2 COPIES). Oxford Oxford Univ Press 1982, 1982, number I, no. 41; II, figs 394-403, Gabrielle Sed-Rajna. Lisbon Bible, 1482: British Library Or. 2626 / introduction by Gabrielle Sed-Rajna. Tel-Aviv: Nahar-Miskal, 1988, page 12-13, Leonard Singer Gold, and New York Public Library. A Sign and a Witness: 2,000 Years of Hebrew Books and Illuminated Manuscripts / Edited with an Introduction by Leonard Singer Gold. New York: New York Public Library, 1988, page 57

Decorations

Border: folio 2r: 1 title page surrounded by penwork decoration and a floriated full border in colours and gold Initial: folio 11v, 12r, 13v, 31v, 63v, 106v, 197v, 252v: 8 embellished frontispieces at the beginning of the books with initial-word panels with gold letters and penwork decoration and surrounded by full-borders with foliate motifs, inhabited by birds and animals Marginal: folio 156r: A drawing of a fish in the margin

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

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040-003948072

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Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5698 : Lisbon Mishneh Torah', volume 1.Mishneh Torah by Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204משנה תורהand 7 other texts

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[7882]/040-003948072

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

301 folios

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Languages:

Hebrew

Scripts:

Hebrew

Start Date:

1472

End Date:

1472

Date Range:

1472

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Physical Characteristics:

Parchment codex of the 15th century.

301 folios. Dimensions (leaf): 330 x 245 mm. Dimensions (written): 205 x 150 mm.

Format: codex. Material: parchment.

Foliation: 301 folios (+ 3 modern paper flyleaves and 1 older paper flyleaf at the beginning and at the end), one unfoliated leaf [folio 251*] after folio 251.

Collation: 37 quires: i10 (folios 1-10), ii8 (folios 11-18), iii8 (folios 19-26), iv8 (folios 27-34), v8 (folios 35-42), vi8 (folios 43-50), vii8 (folios 51-58), viii8 (folios 59-66), ix8 (folios 67-74), x8 (folios 75-82), xi8 (folios 83-90), xii8 (folios 91-98), xiii8 (folios 99-107), xiv8 (folios 108-114), xv8 (folios 115-122), xvi8 (folios 123-130), xvii8 (folios 131-138), xviii8 (folios 139-146), xix8 (folios 147-154), xx8 (folios 155-162), xxi8 (folios 163-170), xxii8 (folios 171-178), xxiii8 (folios 179-186), xiv10 (folios 187-196), xxv8 (folios 197-204), xxvi8 (folios 205-212), xxvii8 (folios 213-220), xxviii8 (folios 221-228), xxix8 (folios 229-236), xxx8 (folios 237-244), xxxi8 (folios 245-251), xxxii8 (folios 252-259), xxxiii8 (folios 260-267), xxxiv8 (folios 268-275), xxxv8 (folios 276-283), xxxvi8 (folios 284-291), xxxvii10 (folios 292-301).

Layout: Columns: 2. Ruled lines: 36. Written lines: 36. Uniform layout. Visible ruling with a sharp object (complete). Hair-side and flesh-side are distinguishable. Scant marginal notes. Fore edge, lower and upper edges are colored with red strips. From folio 32 parallel Hebrew foliation starting with no. 22. The older paper flyleaves of the binding have watermarks similar to Edward Heawood. Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries. [With a Portrait.] Hilversum: Paper Publications Society, 1950. number 2745Erasures by a censor (e.g. on folios 38r, 54v, 55r, 264v, 266r, 272v).

Additions: Two illegible Hebrew notes (fol. 1r).

Hand note: Hebrew.

Number of hands: 1.

Script: Sefardi square script, unpunctuated (except a passage on folio 139r), of the 15th century. Shelomoh ibn Alzuḳ (scribe): inscribed in the colophon, volume II, folio 434v.

Binding: BM in-house. Spine title: 'Moses ben Maimon. Mishneh Torah. Hebrew. Vol. I. Brit. Mus. Harley 5698.'

Dimensions [leaf]: 330x245mm

Dimensions [written]: 205x150mm

Parchment codex of the 15th century

Script (summary): Sefardi square script, unpunctuated (except a passage on folio 139r), of the 15th century. Shelomoh ibn Alzuḳ (scribe): inscribed in the colophon, volume II, folio 434v

Layout: Columns: 2. Ruled lines: 36. Written lines: 36. Uniform layout. Visible ruling with a sharp object (complete). Hair-side and flesh-side are distinguishable. Scant marginal notes. Fore edge, lower and upper edges are colored with red strips. From folio 32 parallel Hebrew foliation starting with no. 22. The older paper flyleaves of the binding have watermarks similar to Edward Heawood. Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries. [With a Portrait.]. Hilversum: Paper Publications Society, 1950, number 2745. Erasures by a censor (e.g. on folios 38r, 54v, 55r, 264v, 266r, 272v)

Foliation: 301 folios (+ 3 modern paper flyleaves and 1 older paper flyleaf at the beginning and at the end), one unfoliated leaf [folio 251*] after folio 251

Binding: BM in-house. Spine title: 'Moses ben Maimon. Mishneh Torah. Hebrew. Vol. I. Brit. Mus. Harley 5698.'

Additions: Fra Giro[lamo] de Durazzano de Predi[?] (censor): censor's signature and note 1640 (folio 1r). Erasures (e.g. folios 58v-59r, 96r-v, 272v). (Narkiss reads the name Durallano), on him see William POPPER. The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger. New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969, number 89. Two illegible Hebrew notes (folio 1r). Bernard Mould (owner) (b. c. 1683; d. 1744), chaplain at Smyrna: inscribed with his name, Smyrna, 1724 (folio 301r); sold to Edward Harley (owner) on 28 July 1725 (see C. E. Wright, (Cyril Ernest). Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts Preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum / Cyril Ernest Wright. London: British Museum, 1972)

Format: Codex

Material: Parchment

Custodial History:

Provenance: Fra Giro[lamo] de Durazzano de Predi[?] (censor): censor's signature and note 1640 (folio 1r). Erasures (e.g. folios 58v-59r, 96r-v, 272v). (Narkiss reads the name Durallano), on him see William POPPER. The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger. New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969. number 89. Bernard Mould (owner) (b. c. 1683; d. 1744), chaplain at Smyrna: inscribed with his name, Smyrna, 1724 (folio 301r); sold to Edward Harley (owner) on 28 July 1725 (see Wright, (Cyril Ernest) C. E. Fontes Harleiani : A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts Preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum / Cyril Ernest Wright. London: British Museum, 1972).

Place of origin: Portugal (Lisbon).

Source of Acquisition:

Acquisition: 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, 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.

Date of origin: 1472.

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. 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: 1472.

Origin: 5253 Hebrew (1472-1472)

Portugal (Lisbon)

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. 486.

British Museum. A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in 1-4 the British Museum Vols 1 and 3. Sl: sn, 1808. number 5698-5699

C. E Wright editor, and Ruth C. Wright editor. The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726. London: Bibliographical Society, 1966. page 370

Sacred (Exhibition) (2007 : British Library). Sacred : Books of the Three Faiths : Judaism, Christianity, Islam / Edited by John Reeve ; Essays by Karen Armstrong, Everett Fox, F.E. Peters ; Catalogue Contributions by Colin F. Baker ... [et Al.]. London: British Library, 2007. page 95

BL = British Library shelfmark.

Edward Heawood. 'Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries. [With a Portrait.]'. Hilversum: Paper Publications Society, 1950.

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

Wright, (Cyril Ernest) C. E. 'Fontes Harleiani : A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts Preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum / Cyril Ernest Wright.' London: British Museum, 1972.

British Museum. 'A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in 1-4 the British Museum Vols 1 and 3. 'Sl: sn, 1808.

C. E Wright editor, and Ruth C. Wright editor. 'The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726.' London: Bibliographical Society, 1966.

Sacred (Exhibition) (2007 : British Library). 'Sacred : Books of the Three Faiths : Judaism, Christianity, Islam / Edited by John Reeve ; Essays by Karen Armstrong, Everett Fox, F.E. Peters ; Catalogue Contributions by Colin F. Baker ... [et al.].'London: British Library, 2007.

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.

Related Material:

Filiation: See also the second volume of the work, The British Library, n.d.. Harley MS 5699, 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. 487.