[Mitsvot ha-gadol : Precepts 39-41].
[מצות הגדול : עשין ל"ט-מ"א].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Moses ben Jacob, of Coucy, active 13th century.

Contributor:

Colker, Marvin L., former owner.

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Commandments, Six hundred and thirteen--Early works to 1800.

Commandments, Six hundred and thirteen.

Commandments (Judaism)--Early works to 1800.

Commandments (Judaism).

Genre:

fragments (object portions)

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Item inscribed at lower recto: Register Inquezitionum für Hospitall von Jahr 1619 (possibly wrapped by this manuscript).

Formerly owned by Marvin L. Colker, cataloger of manuscripts at Trinity College Dublin and professor of classics at the University of Virgina (former call number Colker Ms. 040); purchased by Colker from Maggs Bros Ltd in 2000 (Christie's).

Sold by Christie's London, Online auction 21173 (November 28, 2022) as part of the collection of Marvin L. Colker.

Physical Description:

1 leaf : parchment ; 350 x 235 (243 x 170) mm.

Place of Publication:

[Germany], [13--].

[גרמניה], [13--].

Language Note:

Hebrew.

Summary:

This is a manuscript leaf from a codex manuscript of Sefer Mitsṿot ha-gadol (The Book of Commandments by Moses ben Jacob of Coucy, completed approximately 1250) from the portion of the Precepts (also referred to as the positive commandments, or עשין); surviving text begins הראשון מבערו - מי ששוכח and continues to ומרור אינו צריך הסיבה; Precept 39 is the searching, collection, and scorching of all leavened bread preceding Passover; 40 is the obligation to eat Matzos on the Seder night; 41 is the obligation to recite the story of the Exodus from Egypt and the required portions of the Haggadah.

Notes:

Ms. leaf.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Layout: Written in two columns, frame ruled (blind ruling); breaks in line following colons; Precept numbers correspond to text in adjacent margins; marginalia (additions and variant texts).

Origin: Written in Germany during the 14th century.

Script: Written in an Ashkenazic-Gothic semicursive script; מצות עשה opens each Precept and is written in a 14th century German-Ashkenazic Gothic square script.

Cited as:

Mitsvot ha-gadol : Precepts 39-41 (UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 623). Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1374614985

Access Restriction:

Access to this item is subject to staff review (housed in flat lying box under Island 2).