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Harley MS 7586 A

Record Id:

040-003948135

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-003948135

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100124337743.0x000001

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100145090786.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 7586 A

Title:

Maimonides' Moreh nevukhim.

Moreh nevukhim by Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204

מורה נבוכים

and 1 other text

Scope & Content:

Language: Hebrew

Philosophical writing.

Fols 1r-169v

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

Moreh nevukhim

מורה נבוכים

Note: In the Hebrew translation of (translator) Shemuel ibn Tibbon.

Decoration note: 1 decorated letter, in colours. (Fol 2r)

Decoration note: 4 arcades framing text, in colours. (Fols 3r, 63r, 110r, 171r)

Decoration note: Panels decorated with foliate motifs and inhabited by birds, animals and hybrids around the initial words, in colours and gold. (Fols 5r, 5v, 7v)

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

Fols 171r-188v

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

Perush ha-milot ha-zarot

פרוש המלות הזרות

Philosophy

In the Hebrew translation of Shemuel ibn Tibbon (translator)

See Alexander Marx. Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume on the Occasion of His Seventieth birthday.English Section / Foreword Signed: Saul Lieberman,editor. New York: The Jewish theological seminary of America, 1950, page 231-342, Bezalel Narkiss. Kitve-yad ʿIvriyim metsuyarim / me-et Betsalʾel Narḳis ; mavo me-et Sesil Rot ; [ʿIvrit, Daliyah Shaḥaḳ ; ʿarikhah, Daliyah Ṭesler]. Mahad. ʿIvrit ḥadashah u-metuḳenet. Yerushalayim: Keter, 1984, page 298-299, Alfred Ebenbauer, Klaus Zatloukal, and Universität Wien. Geisteswissenschaft Fakultät. Die Juden in ihrer mittelalterlichen Umwelt / Alfred Ebenbauer, Klaus Zatloukal (Hgg.). Wien: Böhlau, 1991, page 131-150, Ilana Tahan. Hebrew Manuscripts : The Power of Script and Image / Ilana Tahan. London: British Library, 2007, page 125

Decorations

Initial: folio 2r: 1 decorated letter, in coloursBorder: folio 3r, 63r, 110r, 171r: 4 arcades framing text, in coloursBorder: folio 5r, 5v, 7v: Panels decorated with foliate motifs and inhabited by birds, animals and hybrids around the initial words, in colours and gold Marginal: Numerous pen-flourishing sometimes inhabited by hybrids accompanying headings, in red and blue ink

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

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Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 7586 A : Maimonides' Moreh nevukhim.Moreh nevukhim by Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204מורה נבוכיםand 1 other text

Hierarchy:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

188 folios

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Languages:

Hebrew

Scripts:

Hebrew

Start Date:

1283

End Date:

1283

Date Range:

1283

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Parchment codex of the 13th century.

188 folios. Dimensions (leaf): 305 x 220 mm. Dimensions (written): 210 x 145 mm.

Format: codex. Material: parchment.

Foliation: 188 folios (+ 1 unfoliated modern flyleaf at the beginning and 1 older and 1 modern unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end), folio 1 is a paper flyleaf.

Collation: 20 quires: i-vi10 (folios 2-61), vii10-1 (folios 62-70), viii-xvi10 (folios 71-160), xvii10 (folios 161-169 and 171; folio 170 is a later insertion), xviii6 (folios 172-177), xixthree (folios 178-180), xx8 (folios 181-188). No catchwords.

Layout: Columns: 2. Ruled lines: 36. Written lines: 36. Uniform layout. Visible hard-point ruling. Hair side and flesh side distinguishable. Titles and inital words in larger characters. Watermark, folio [189r] of a tree-storey hill with a cross on top with a date 1722 beneath, unidentified. Folio 134 is a later restoration, folio 170 is a smaller piece of parchment inserted later.

Additions: Illegible inscription in Latin characters (folio 3r).

Hand note: Hebrew.

Number of hands: 1.

Script: Italian square script, unpunctuated, of the 13th century. (scribe) Avraham ben Yom Ṭov ha-Kohen: inscribed in the colophon, folio 169v.

Binding: Post-1600. 'Harleian' binding. Spine: 'Maimonides. Moreh Nebuchim. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Harley Or. 7586 A.'

Dimensions [leaf]: 305x220mm

Dimensions [written]: 210x145mm

Parchment codex of the 13th century

Script (summary): Italian square script, unpunctuated, of the 13th century. Avraham ben Yom Ṭov ha-Kohen (scribe): inscribed in the colophon, folio 169v

Foliation: 188 folios (+ 1 unfoliated modern flyleaf at the beginning and 1 older and 1 modern unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end), folio 1 is a paper flyleaf

Binding: Post-1600. 'Harleian' binding. Spine: 'Maimonides. Moreh Nebuchim. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Harley Or. 7586 A.'

Additions: Shabtai ben Matatyah of Rome (owner) and Shelomoh ben Shabtai (owner), his son: inscribed with their name as the patrons in the colophon, 5044 [1283] (folio 169v). Yo᾿av ben Shelomoh: (owner) mentioned in an acquisition note, 1340 (folio 2r). Menaḥem ben Yo᾿av ben Shelomoh (owner): sold to Matatyah ben Shabtai ben Shelomoh (owner) for 50 golden florins: inscribed with their names in a purchase note, 1378 (folio 2r). Yeḥiel ben Yo᾿av of Montalcino (owner): sold to Yisrael ben Yitsḥaḳ of Pisa (owner) for 100 florins: inscribed with their names in a purchase note, 1461 (folio 2r). Illegible inscription in Latin characters (folio 3r)

Format: Codex

Material: Parchment

Custodial History:

Provenance: (owner) Shabtai ben Matatyah of Rome and (owner) Shelomoh ben Shabtai, his son: inscribed with their name as the patrons in the colophon, 5044 [1283] (folio 169v). (owner) Yo᾿av ben Shelomoh mentioned in an acquisition note, 1340 (folio 2r). (owner) Menaḥem ben Yo᾿av ben Shelomoh: sold to (owner) Matatyah ben Shabtai ben Shelomoh for 50 golden florins: inscribed with their names in a purchase note, 1378 (folio 2r). (owner) Yeḥiel ben Yo᾿av of Montalcino: sold to (owner) Yisrael ben Yitsḥaḳ of Pisa for 100 florins: inscribed with their names in a purchase note, 1461 (folio 2r).

Place of origin: Italy, C. (Rome?)

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. 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: 1283.

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: 1283.

Origin: 5044 Hebrew (1283-1283)

Italy, C. (Rome?)

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. 906.

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), no. 7586 A.

Aaron Freimann, 'Jewish Scribes in Medieval Italy', in Alexander Marx Jubilee Volume (New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1950), pp. 231-342 (no. 14a).

Malachi Beit-Arie, 'The Cryptic Name of the Scribe Abraham b. Yom Tov ha-Cohen', Israel Oriental Studies, 2 (1972), 51-56 (p. 52). Bezalel Narkiss, 'Three Jewish Art Patrons in Mediaeval Italy', in Festschrift Reuben R. Hecht (Koren Publishers Jerusalem Ltd., 1984), pp. 296-307 (pp. 298-99).

Mendel Metzger, 'Two Centuries (13th-14th) of Hebrew Manuscript Ilumination in Italy', in Die Juden in ihrer Mittelalterlichen Umwelt eds. by Alfred Ebenbauer and Klaus Zatloukal (Vienna: Böhnlau Verlag, 1991), pp. 131-50 (p. 138).

Malachi Beit-Arie, The Panizzi Lectures: Hebrew Manuscripts of East and West. Towards a Comparative Codicology (London: The British Library, 1992), pp. 63, 69.

Ilana Tahan, Hebrew Manuscripts: The Power of Script and Image (London, British Library, 2007), p. 125.

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.