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MS. Laud Or. 234

Oriental Manuscripts Laud Oriental Collection

Contents

Moreh Nevukhim

ff. 1r-216v
Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204משה בן מימון, Moreh Nevukhim מורה נבוכים
Language(s): Hebrew

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: ff. 216
Dimensions (leaf): 290 × 210 mm.

Hand(s)

Sephardi semi-cursive script.

Decoration

Illuminated full page initial-word panels with full floral border at the beginning of the work and at the beginning of books 2 and 3 (fols. 7v, 141v, fol. 83v); and illuminated initial-word panels(fols. 82r, 142r).

Additions:

Fols. 2-6 are a later addition on paper containing: "Index sectionum quae in hoc libro citantur."

Binding

Brown leather binding, blind-tooled, with the gold-tooled coat of arms of Archbisop Laud in the middle; holes for straps. Binding repaired in July 1963 by Maltby.

History

Origin: [Spain]; [ca. 1300]

Provenance and Acquisition

Ownership inscription: "Liber Guilielmi Laud Archiepi[scopi] Cant[uariensis] et Cancellar[ii] Universitatis Oxon[iensis] 1634" (fol. 1r); erased Arabic (?) note on fol. 1r; erased Hebrew note on fol. 215v, undeciphered Hebrew inscription on fol. 216r

Donated to the Library by Archbishop William Laud (see Summary Catalogue, vol.II, part 1, pp.13-14).

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, vol. I, by Adolf Neubauer, Oxford 1886, No. 1250, Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library; Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol. I, No. 1250, and on the data of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts, National Library of Israel with additional enhancements by the cataloguer.

Availability

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures contact Bodleian Admissions). Contact specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk for further information on the availability of this manuscript.

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)

Microfilm

MSS R.R. Film No. F 22064

Bibliography

    Neubauer, Adolf, Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1886), no. 1250.
    Beit-Arié, Malachi and R.A. May (eds), Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library; Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol. I (A. Neubauer’s Catalogue) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994), no. 1250.

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