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MS. Pococke 295

Oriental Manuscripts Pococke Collection

Commentary on Mishnah Nezikin and Kodashim

ff. 1r-300v

Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204משה בן מימון, Commentary on Mishnah (Neziḳin and Ḳodashim) פרוש המשנה לרמב"ם בערבית (סדר נזיקין, קדשים)

Beginning with Bama Kama chapter 8. Marginal notes containing corrections and two notes (on Hulin chapter 3) of Shmuel ben Mosheh Magrabi. The first chapter of Hulin is interrupted bya leaf containing the last two verses of Exodus with Onkelos and Saadiah's Arabic translation.

On flyleaf: אשר הקדישה האשה לשם בר' אברהם כהן דקניט(?) ז"ל ולשם בנו יצחק ז"ל

Language(s): Hebrew

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: paper

Extent: ff. 301

Dimensions (other):

Dimensions (written):

Condition

Oriental quiring (Oriental?) laid paper without chain-lines.

Hand(s)

Sephardi semi-cursive script

History

Origin: [Fostat]; [ca. 1167/8]

Provenance and Acquisition

On fly-leaf: אשר הקדישה האשה לשם בר' אברהם כהן דקניט(?) ז"ל ולשם בנו יצחק ז"ל

Edward Pococke's collection of oriental MSS (mostly Armenian, Hebrew and Arabic) was purchased by the Library for £800 in 1692 (see Summary Catalogue, vol. II, p. 1008).

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, vol. I, by Adolf Neubauer, Oxford 1886, No. 404, Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library; Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol. I No. 404. 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 18392

Bibliography

Maimonidis Commentarius in Mischnam (facsimile edition: Copenhagen, 1956)

Neubauer, Adolf, Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1886), no. 404.

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. 404.

S.M. Stern in Tarbiz 23 (1952}: 72-83 [in Hebrew]

Hebrew and Judaica Manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford University