[Bab Musi] = Porta Mosis sive, Dissertationes aliqvot à R. Mose Maimonide : suis in varias Mishnaioth, sive textus Talmudici partes, commentariis præmissæ, quæ ad universam serè Judæorum disciplinam aditum aperiunt. Nunc primùm Arabicè prout ab ipso autore conscriptæ sunt, & Latinè edita. Unà cum Appendice notarum miscellanea
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Title: [Bab Musi] = Porta Mosis sive, Dissertationes aliqvot à R. Mose Maimonide : suis in varias Mishnaioth, sive textus Talmudici partes, commentariis præmissæ, quæ ad universam serè Judæorum disciplinam aditum aperiunt. Nunc primùm Arabicè prout ab ipso autore conscriptæ sunt, & Latinè edita. Unà cum Appendice notarum miscellanea
Other titles: Porta Mosis sive, Dissertationes aliqvot à R. Mose Maimonide; Porta Mosis
Classmark: Roth Collection 626
Creator(s): Maimonides, Moses (1135-1204)
Additional creator(s): Maimonides, Moses (1135-1204) (Other); Pococke, Edward (1604-1691) (Other); Hall, Henry (1642-1680) (Other); Davis, Richard (1646-1688) (Other); Roth, Cecil (1899-1970) (Former owner)
Publisher: Excudebat H. Hall Academiæ typographus : Impensis R. Davis
Publication city: Oxoniæ
Date(s): 1655
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 24 unnumbered pages, 355 pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 104, 109-436 pages, 28 unnumbered pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/264664
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991017180939705181
Description
First part of title transliterated from Judeo-Arabic.
Selections from Maimonides' Kitāb al-Sirāj, in their Judeo-Arabic original and in Latin translation.
"Appendix notae miscellaneae" has special t.p. with date 1654.
With numerous mispaginations.
Marginal notes.
Errata: p. [27-28].
Porta Mosis.
Includes index.
Indexed in: Wing (2nd ed.) M2855.
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Roth Collection 626: excerpt from sale catalogue, no. 697, indicating that this is the first Hebrew text printed in Oxford.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Roth Collection 626: contemporary calf, blind tooled, gold tooled label on spine.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Roth Collection 626. Twentieth-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: Ex Libris Cecil Roth. MS. inscription on front flyleaf in Arabic: [?] Soph. MS. annotation on verso about the author and item, the latter taken from Bib Biblica p352. : Dr Pocock was one of the finest oriental scholars, and certainly the first Arabic scholar of his age. The Porta Mosis is an Arabic work by the celebrated Jew, Rabbi Maimonides, containing certain dissertations of his on various parts of the Misnah or Talmudic Text, which open the way to almost the whole Jewish system [etc].
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