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Harley MS 5699

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040-003948130

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-003948130

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Harley MS 5699

Title:

Lisbon Mishneh Torah', vol. 2.

Mishneh Torah by Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204

משנה תורה

and 9 other texts

Scope & Content:

Language: Hebrew

Mishneh Torah, volume 2.

Fols 1r-435v

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

Mishneh Torah.

משנה תורה

Note: Written by Shelomoh ben Alzuḳ for Yosef ben Daṿid ben Shelomoh ben Rabi Daṿid ben Gedalyah the elder (patron): inscription (folio 434v).

Decoration note: 9 embellished frontispieces in colours and gold at the beginning of the books with initial-word panels with gold letters and penwork decoration and surrounded by full-border with foliate motifs and gold, inhabited by birds and animals. (Fols 2v, 34v, 94v, 161v, 189v, 277v, 313v, 355v, 397v)

Decoration note: 1 carpet page including a colophon with gold letters and penwork decoration, surrounded by full foliate border inhabited by birds and animals. (Fol 434v)

Filiation: See also the first volume of the work, The British Library, n.d.. Harley MS 5698, 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.

Colophon: אנא זעירא דמן חבריא שלמה ן' אלזוק הסופר כתבתי זה הספר ' הנותן אמרי שפר ' עץ חיים אשר לא נפלו עליו ' כל עץ בגן אלהים לא דמה אליו ' ויד יי' היתה עליו ' הי"ד הגדולה והמפוארה ' תורה שבעל פה ' כלה סדורה ' בלשון ברורה ' ודרך קצרה ' הנקרא משנה תורה " חברו הגאון האלהי המורה הגדול רבי' משה בר מימון ז"ל " ואני כתבתיו לאיש חמודות ' המדובר בו נכבדות ' לו ביחס ובמעלות ' עשר ידות " תמים בפעולותיו ' וישר בדעותיו ' יועץ ונבון לחשים ' ראש בקרואים ובראשים ' תחכמוני ראש השלשים ' דובר מישרים ' חמדת השרים והישרים ' ערב ונאה ' ויהי יוסף יפה תואר ויפה מראה " דורש טוב לעמו ' בגוים גדול שמו : יוסף בן דוד בן שלמה בן הרב הנכבד ונעלה ' דוד בן גדליה הזקן ן' יחיא ת'נ'צ'ב'ה' האל יזכהו להגות בו הוא וכל זרעו משרשיו יפריח ' וכל אשר יעשה יצליח ' ויקיים בו לא ימוש ספר התורה הזה מפיך ' וגו' " ונגמר באלף הששי ליצירה שנת ז'כ'ר'ה' לי אלהי לטובה" (Fol 434v)

Fols 2v-34v

Sefer hafla᾿ah.

Fols 34v-94v

Sefer zera῾im.

Fols 94v-161v

Sefer ῾avodah.

Fols 161v-189v

Sefer ḳorbanot.

Fols 189v-277v

Sefer ṭohorah.

Fols 277v-313v

Sefer neziḳin.

Fols 313v-355v

Sefer ḳinyan.

Fols 355v-397v

Sefer mishpaṭim.

Fols 397v-435v

Sefer shofeṭim.

Halakhah

Colophon : folio 434v: אנא זעירא דמן חבריא שלמה ן' אלזוק (scribe) הסופר כתבתי זה הספר ' הנותן אמרי שפר ' עץ חיים אשר לא נפלו עליו ' כל עץ בגן אלהים לא דמה אליו ' ויד יי' היתה עליו ' הי"ד הגדולה והמפוארה ' תורה שבעל פה ' כלה סדורה ' בלשון ברורה ' ודרך קצרה ' הנקרא משנה תורה " חברו הגאון האלהי המורה הגדול רבי' משה בר מימון ז"ל " ואני כתבתיו לאיש חמודות ' המדובר בו נכבדות ' לו ביחס ובמעלות ' עשר ידות " תמים בפעולותיו ' וישר בדעותיו ' יועץ ונבון לחשים ' ראש בקרואים ובראשים ' תחכמוני ראש השלשים ' דובר מישרים ' חמדת השרים והישרים ' ערב ונאה ' ויהי יוסף יפה תואר ויפה מראה " דורש טוב לעמו ' בגוים גדול שמו : יוסף בן דוד בן שלמה בן הרב הנכבד ונעלה ' דוד בן גדליה הזקן ן' יחיא (patron) ת'נ'צ'ב'ה' האל יזכהו להגות בו הוא וכל זרעו משרשיו יפריח ' וכל אשר יעשה יצליח ' ויקיים בו לא ימוש ספר התורה הזה מפיך ' וגו' " ונגמר באלף הששי ליצירה שנת ז'כ'ר'ה' לי אלהי לטובה"

On this manuscript see 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 2v, 34v, 94v, 161v, 189v, 277v, 313v, 355v, 397v: 9 embellished frontispieces in colours and gold at the beginning of the books with initial-word panels with gold letters and penwork decoration and surrounded by full-border with foliate motifs and gold, inhabited by birds and animals Border: folio 434v: 1 carpet page including a colophon with gold letters and penwork decoration, surrounded by full foliate border inhabited by birds and animals

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

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Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5699 : Lisbon Mishneh Torah', vol. 2.Mishneh Torah by Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204משנה תורהand 9 other texts

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Record Type (Level):

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Extent:

435 folios

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Scripts:

Hebrew

Start Date:

1472

End Date:

1472

Date Range:

1472

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Physical Characteristics:

Parchment codex of the 15th century.

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

Format: codex. Material: parchment.

Foliation: 435 folios (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves and 1 unfoliated and 1 foliated older paper flyleaves at the beginning, and 1 unfoliated older flyleaf and 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves). Hebrew foliation is the continuation of that of the first volume (folio 2 is identical with Hebrew foliation 293). Unfoliated leaf [folio 160*] after folio 160 (but it has the Hebrew foliation: 452) and one unfoliated leaf [folio 436] after folio 435.

Collation: 53 quires: i8 (folios 2-9), ii8 (folios 10-17), iii8 (folios 18-25), iv8 (folios 26-33), v8 (folios 34-41), vi8 (folios 42-49), vii8 (folios 50-57), viii8 (folios 58-65), ix8 (folios 66-73), x8 (folios 74-81), xi10 (folios 82-93), xii8 (folios 94-101), xiii8 (folios 102-109), xiv8 (folios110-117), xv8 (folios 118-125), xvi8 (folios 126-133), xvii8 (folios 134-141), xviii8 (folios 142-149), xix12 (folios 150-[161*]), xx8 (folios 161-168), xxi8 (folios 169-176), xxii6 (folios 177-182), xxiii6 (folios 183-188), xxiv8 (folios 189-196), 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 245-252), xxxii8 (folios 253-260), xxxiii8 (folios 261-268), xxxiv8 (folios 269-276), xxxv8 (folios 277-284), xxxvi8 (folios 285-292), xxxvii10 (folios 293-302), xxxviii10 (folios 303-312), xxxix8 (folios 313-320), xl8 (folios 321-328), xli8 (folios 329-336), xlii8 (folios 337-344), xliii10 (folios 345-354), xliv8 (folios 355-362), xlv8 (folios 363-370), xlvi8 (folios 371-378), xlvii8 (folios 379-386), xlviii10 (folios 387-396), xlix8 (folios 397-404), l8 (folios 405-412), li8 (folios 413-420), lii8 (folios 421-428), liii8 (folios 429-[436]).

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. Manicula in the margin (folio 17r). The spaces for diagrams in Sefer ῾avodah have been left blank. The unfoliated older paper flyleaves have watermarks similar to Edward Heawood. Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries. [With a Portrait.] Hilversum: Paper Publications Society, 1950. number 447, 2745, the foliated paper flyleaf has a watermark similar to Edward Heawood. Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries. [With a Portrait.] Hilversum: Paper Publications Society, 1950. number 750.

Hand note: Hebrew.

Number of hands: 1.

Script: Sefardi square script, unpunctuated, of the 15th century. Shelomoh ibn Alzuḳ (scribe): inscribed in the colophon, folio 434v.

Binding: BM in-house. Spine title: 'Moses ben Maimon. Mishneh Torah. Hebrew. Vol. II. Brit. Mus. Harley Ms. 5699.'

Dimensions [leaf]: 330x245mm

Dimensions [written]: 205x150mm

Parchment codex of the 15th century

Script (summary): Sefardi square script, unpunctuated, of the 15th century. Shelomoh ibn Alzuḳ (scribe): inscribed in the colophon, 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. Manicula in the margin (folio 17r).The spaces for diagrams in Sefer ῾avodah have been left blank.The unfoliated older paper flyleaves have watermarks similar to Edward Heawood. Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries. [With a Portrait.]. Hilversum: Paper Publications Society, 1950, number 447, 2745, the foliated paper flyleaf has a watermark similar to Edward Heawood. Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries. [With a Portrait.]. Hilversum: Paper Publications Society, 1950, number 750

Binding: BM in-house. Spine title: 'Moses ben Maimon. Mishneh Torah. Hebrew. Vol. II. Brit. Mus. Harley Ms. 5699.'

Additions: folio 224v, 283r, 294v, 297r, 375r, 422r: Written by Shelomoh ben Alzuḳ for Yosef ben Daṿid ben Shelomoh ben Rabi Daṿid ben Gedalyah the elder (patron): inscription (folio 434v). Laurentius Franguellus (censor): inscribed with his name: 'Revistu[s] p[er] me Laurentiu[s] Franguellu[s] die 26 novembris 1574' (folio 434r), see William POPPER. The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger. New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969, number 105-110. Luigi de Bologna (censor): inscribed 'Revisto et corretto per me f. Luigi da Bologna del 1601' (folio 433v). A converted Jew working for the Inquisition as censor (active at the end of the sixteenth, beginning of seventeenth century), see William POPPER. The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger. New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969, page 104, and appendix § 112-117. Camillo Jaghel (censor): inscribed with his name, 1613 (folio 433v), see William POPPER. The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger. New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969, number 50-56. Renato de Modena (censor): inscription 'Visto p[er] me fr. Renato de Mod[ena] 1626' (f. 434); see William POPPER. The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger. New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969, number 132-133. Erasures (e.g.). Bernard Mould (owner) (b. c. 1683; d. 1744), chaplain at Smyrna: inscribed with his name, Smyrna, 1724 (folio 435b); sold to Edward Harley (owner) on 28 July 1725 (see C. E Wright editor, and Ruth C. Wright editor. The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726. London: Bibliographical Society, 1966, 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: Laurentius Franguellus (censor): inscribed with his name: 'Revistu[s] p[er] me Laurentiu[s] Franguellu[s] die 26 novembris 1574' (folio 434r), see William POPPER. The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger. New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969. number 105-110. Luigi de Bologna (censor): inscribed 'Revisto et corretto per me f. Luigi da Bologna del 1601' (folio 433v). A converted Jew working for the Inquisition as censor (active at the end of the sixteenth, beginning of seventeenth century), see William POPPER. The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger. New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969. page 104, and appendix § 112-117. Camillo Jaghel (censor): inscribed with his name, 1613 (folio 433v), see William POPPER. The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger. New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969. number 50-56. Renato de Modena (censor): inscription 'Visto p[er] me fr. Renato de Mod[ena] 1626' (f. 434); see William POPPER. The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger. New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969. number 132-133. Erasures (e.g.). Bernard Mould (owner) (b. c. 1683; d. 1744), chaplain at Smyrna: inscribed with his name, Smyrna, 1724 (folio 435b); sold to Edward Harley (owner) on 28 July 1725 (see C. E Wright editor, and Ruth C. Wright editor. The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726. London: Bibliographical Society, 1966, 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). (Fols 224v, 283r, 294v, 297r, 375r, 422r)

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. 487.

A Catalogue of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts, in the British Museum., III, (London, 1808), no. 5698-9.

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726., ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1726, p. 370 n. 1.

Bezalel Narkiss, Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts. (New York: Macmillan 1969), p. 78.

Gabrielle Sed-Rajna, Manuscrits hebreux de Lisbonne. (Paris 1970), pp. 20-22.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum. (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 246, 459.

Bezalel Narkiss, Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts in the British Isles: a Catalogue Raisonne. The Spanish and Portuguese Manuscripts., 2 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982), I, no. 41; II, figs 394-403.

Evelyn M. Cohen, 'The Decoration of Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts', in A Sign and a Witness: 2,000 Years of Hebrew Books and Illuminated Manuscripts., ed. By Leonard Singer Gold (New York: New York Public Library, 1988), p. 57.

Lisbon Bible: 1482. British Library Or. 2626., introduction by Gabrielle Sed-Rajna (Tel Aviv: Nahar Miskal, 1988), pp. 12-13 [facsimile edition].

Ilana Tahan, Hebrew Manuscripts: The Power of Script and Image. (London, British Library, 2007), pp. 114-15.

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.

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

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.

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.

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