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Title

A commentary on parts of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 27294
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27294
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Judeo-Arabic; Hebrew

Origin

Summary

A commentary on parts of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah.

Notes

• Tidemarks throughout at head and foot, with loss of (carbon) ink in these areas.
   
• Repaired and infilled before rebinding.
   
• Folio 1r: Hebrew description of the volume.
   
• Folio 2r: contains dates according to six different eras which are only partly legible.
   

Extent

273 folios; 273 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Boxed. Spine: ''Alau 'L-Din Al-Muwakkit. Comm. On The Sepher Ham-Madda'. Arab. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,294.'

Layout

Columns: 1 ; ruled lines: 17 22; written lines: 17 22; Uniform layout. Catchwords on most of the versos. Chapter numbers and initials given in larger characters. Some marginalia lost to trimming.

Script

Oriental semi-cursive script of the third quarter of the 15th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Samuel Schönblum: purchased from him by the British Museum on 14 April 1866: inscribed, folio [ii verso] (fs002v).
   

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. 72r — Sefer ahavah
• fol. 170r — Sefer zemanim