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Title

Sefer Mitsṿot gadol (בפר מצות גדול)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 22069
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_22069
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

EgyptCairo

Summary

Sefer Mitsṿot gadol, also called Gan ῾eden, of Aaron ben Elijah, the Karaite.

Notes

• A French description of the manuscript, pasted on folio 1v.
   
• Eliyah Yerushalmi: inscribed, folio 2v.
   
• Folio 69v: a record of sale of the manuscript, between Mosheh Rabitsi ben Ye᾿uda Nur and Avraham Yerushalmi.
   
• Folio 265r: a record of sale of the manuscript between Eliyah Tishbi and Hillel ben Mosheh Hillel.
   

Extent

265 folios; 265 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

Pre-1600, contemporary binding. Brown leather, gold tooled. Boxed. Spine title: 'Aharon ben Eliah. Mus. Brit. Jure Emptionis. 22,069. Plut. CCXIV E.'

Layout

Columns: 1 ; ruled lines: 34; written lines: 34; Uniform layout. Visible hard-point ruling. Chapter numbers given in larger characters. Titles given in larger square characters. Catchwords on every verso. Occasional marginal notes. A diagram, folio 10r.

Script

Sefardi (North-African) semi-cursive script of the 16th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: J. O. Weigel: purchased from him by the British Museum on 27 June 1857: inscribed (folio [266v]).
   

Related resources

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

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — בפר מצות גדול
• fol. 1r — Sefer Mitsṿot gadol