[Ḳitsur sefer ha-mitsṿot (ḳeṭaʿ). Mishneh Torah : sefer ḳedushah, hilkhot sheḥiṭah (ḳeṭaʿim) / Mosheh ben Maimon]. [קצור ספר המצוות (קטע). משנה תורה : ספר קדושה, הלכות שחיטה (קטעים) / משה בן מימון]. [Abridged book of the 613 commandments with many variants and glosses (fragment). The repetition of the law by Maimonides (fragments)].

Description

Hebrew title supplied by cataloguer. English title derived from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 301.


Variant title:

Yad ha-ḥazaḳah. יד החזקה.


Contents:

1. folios 1r–2v (260mm x 202mm; Franco-Ashkenazic script): Fragment of Ḳitsur sefer ha-mitsṿot; similar to ספר מצוות גדול by Moses ben Jacob of Coucy (‫משה בן יעקב מקוצי‬) but the mitsṿot are in different order according to National Library of Israel (NLI), Online Catalogue, system-no. 990001858570205171 (Roth, "Catalogue", no. 301, identified the fragments as being from Sefer mitsṿot gadol).

2. folios 3r and 4r (114mm x 189mm and 104mm x 132mm; Italian Hebrew script): 2 fragments from Mishneh Torah by Maimonides containing part of hilkhot sheḥiṭah 5:10–11; 7:3–7; 13:15–18.


State of text of folios 1–2: Text in the margins is obscured by adhesive tape (unprofessional repair work); leaves are damaged and creased with loss of text.

State of text of folios 3 and 4: Only small part of leaf is extant; item underwent conservation work.


Insertion: Bound together with a piece of paper on which Roth has jotted a few bibliographical notes concerning the manuscript.


Bibliographical note:

Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 301.

National Library of Israel (NLI), Online Catalogue, system-no. 990001858570205171. The NLI’s description is based on the microfilm of MS Roth 301 made on behalf of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts of the NLI during the 1960s. The microfilm can now be downloaded in a digitised form from the NLI-webpage.

Davis, Handlist 164 (Leeds, 2005), no. 301.


Measurements in Physical characteristics (see below) refer to item’s binding.

Physical characteristics

Script: Ashkenazic square script; Italian square Hebrew script.

Ms. fragments: width 207mm height 265mm

Binding

Sewn into paper wrapper (re-sewn up-side-down in relation to text by conservation). Held in a custom-made box covered with brown cloth.

Former owners and annotations

Many marginal glosses.


Roth’s description of MS Roth 310, cut out from a copy of his printed catalogue, is attached to upper wrapper cover verso. Roth's ex-libris, and the bookplate for “The Cecil Roth Collection”, which was designed in a collaboration between Roth and the University of Leeds, are attached below catalogue cut-out.

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