(RaMBa”M.) Mishneh Torah. Book Four, Sepher Nashim (Women): Hilchoth Ishuth, Geirushin, Yibum and Chalitza only.

MAIMONIDES, MOSES.

c

Yemen

1500

Manuscript in Hebrew written in square Yemenite script on paper, corners rounded in the Yemenite style. Marginalia.

The division into paragraphs here is slightly different from the standard printed editions. However, it is similar to other early manuscripts where the division is designated only by the spaces between paragraphs without the numeration as in the printed editions. The accuracy and variances of this manuscript attest that it was copied from a much earlier codex, thus leading this manuscript to be a most reliable source for Maimonides’ original text. See introduction to the Shabtai Frankel edition of Maimonides on the importance and accuracy of the readings of early Yemenite manuscripts. With thanks to Dr. Benjamin Richler, Director (retired) of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts, National Library of Israel, Jerusalem for his assistance in researching this manuscript.